Paolo Maffei

Paolo Maffei

Paolo Maffei (born 1926) is an Italian astronomer and science writer.

He was born in Foligno and he has been former director of the Catania Observatory and an astronomer at Arcetri, Bologna, Asiago and Hamburg. He studied comets, variable stars, galaxies and the evolution of the universe.

Maffei is well known as a writer of history of astronomy and popularizer of astronomy through a serious books, including the "Al di là della Luna" (1973) and "I mostri del cielo" (1976).

Works

*"Al di là della Luna" (1973)
*"I mostri del cielo" (1976)
*"L'universo nel tempo" (1982)
*"La cometa di Halley: dal passato al presente" (1984)
*"Giuseppe Settele, il suo diario e la questione galileiana" (1987)

ee also

*Maffei 1
*Maffei 2


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