- Baldassarre Boncompagni
Baldassarre Boncompagni-Ludovisi (
Rome ,10 May 1821 –Rome ,13 April 1894 ), prince ofPiombino , was an Italianhistorian ofmathematics .He edited "Bollettino di bibliografia e di storia delle scienze matematiche e fisiche" ("The bulletin of bibliography and history of mathematical and physical sciences") (1868-1887), the first Italian periodical entirely dedicated to the
history of mathematics . [Massimo Mazzotti (2000): [http://www.ex.ac.uk/~mmazzott/paper01.pdf "For science and fot the Pope-king: writing the history of the exact sciences in nineteenth-century Rome"] ,BJHS , 33, pp. 257-282] He edited every article that appeared in the journal. [A. Favaro, `Don Baldassarre Boncompagni e la storia delle scienze matematiche e fisiche ', Atti del Regio Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti (1894-5), 6, pp. 509-21, 514, cited in Massimo Mazzotti (2000): [http://www.ex.ac.uk/~mmazzott/paper01.pdf "For science and for the Pope-king: writing the history of the exact sciences in nineteenth-century Rome"] ,BJHS , 33, pp. 257-282]He also took care of the first modern edition of
Fibonacci 's "Liber Abaci ".He was from the same family as Pope
Gregory XIII . [CathEncy|wstitle=Balthasar Boncompagni]References
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