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> From: Ross Caldwell
> Reply To: History of Astronomy Discussion Group
> Sent: Wednesday, April 9, 2003 3:30 AM
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> Subject: Obscure history of science question
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> Somewhat off-topic (please forgive me) but this is the broadest scientific
> list I know...
>
> I am looking for information on one "Antonius Marini di Francia", noted in
> 1445 as an "industrius vir in omni genere architecture et aliorum
> ingeniosorum edificiorum probe calleat et potissimum in rotis perpetue
> volubilitatis conficiendis". The note on the perpetual motion wheel is what
> caught my attention, and in the belief that an interest in such mechanical
> issues and astronomy were not unrelated in the early Renaissance, I'm hoping
> some of the polymaths on the list might have some insight...
>
> This architect and engineer was invited by Leonello, the Marquis d'Este, to
> take a post in Ferrara on 20 February, 1445, according to the record
> published by Adriano Franceschini in _Artisti a Ferrara in čta umanistica e
> rinascimentale. Testimonianze archvistiche, Parte I dal 1341 al 1471_
> (Corbo, Ferrara-Roma, 1993), p. 256, n. 540. There is no further mention of
> him (at least by this name) in this source, and I haven't been able to find
> an email address for Franceschini to ask him (and the recourse of writing to
> his publisher will be a last resort).
>
> Does anybody know anything more about Antonius Marini di Francia, or where
> information on him might be found?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Ross Caldwell
>
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