Biomedical subjects

A Lualdi

Publications and source records attributed to A Lualdi.

4 recordsLinked to original sources

PubMed2000

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A biographical inventory of Italian scientific instrument makers has been conducted through extensive research in public and private collections throughout the world. The time-span is comprised between the 16th and the 18th centuries for each maker information about his signed and dated instruments, categories, collections and references has been given. As the first attempt of a listing of Italian makers, it must be considered as a work in progress. In a short time the text will be transferred on Internet to allow new additions and the corrections brought by the continuation of research.

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PubMed1999

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The sphere of activity of Biagio Burlini, an optician and instrument-maker working in Venice around the middle of the eighteenth century, is here pointed out. A research in the Archivio Patriarcale of Venice allowed to find the year of his birth (1709) and his death (13.1.1771). A survey of signed microscopes and telescopes now in various public and private collections contributes to a better knowledge of optical instrument-makers in that century.

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PubMed1996

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A study of the activity of the XVIII century Milanese optician François De Baillou and his family has been carried out. His ancestors migrated from France possibly at the beginning of that century. He became the most esteemed optician of his times in the duchy of Milan and he obtained in 1750 the title of "Regio Cesareo Ottico" from Mary Therese of Austria. He had a brother, Giovanni (dead ante 1763) who worked first for the Duke Farnese in Parma and then in Florence for the Granduke Gian Gastone de' Medici. François had a son, Giacomo, who was also optician in Milan and obtained the same title as his father in 1775. He continued to work after his father's death in 1774. A brief survey of other components of the family is given. Working mostly as a spectacle-maker he made a variety of optical instruments; they were largely advertised on dedicated trade-brochures. Here some microscopes and telescopes are analytically listed together with an account of their technical characteristics.

History, 18th Century↗

PubMed1995

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The present paper gives new information about the activity of Pietro Patroni, an early XVIII century optician from Milan, working just after the Spanish domination. By means of research carried out in the City and Church Archives it has been possible to find out the year of his birth, 1676 or 1677, and that of his death, 1744 (September, 1), the name of his wife and brother and the parish church he belonged to. An annotated list of the known microscopes and telescopes gives an impression of his production, partly derivative of Seventeenth century heritage but partly original and innovative. The number of his known signed instruments has been doubled by the discover of one unknown microscope and seven telescopes in private collections and public Museums.

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