Giuseppe Moletti

Giuseppe Moletti (1531-1588) was an Italian mathematician best known for his "Dialogo intorno alla Meccanica" (Dialogue on Mechanics). Though an obscure figure today, he was a renowned mathematician during his life-time, and was even consulted by Pope Gregory XIII on his new calendar. ^{[http://www.math.unipd.it/~frank/history.html]}

He held the mathematics chair at the University of Padua, preceding Galileo, who had sent him his theorems on the centre of gravity.

References

*cite book|last = Laird|first = Walter Roy|title = The Unfinished Mechanics of Giuseppe Moletti|publisher = University of Toronto Press|date = 2000|isbn = 0802046991|url = http://books.google.com/books?id=ZRoYMobkW6cC