Pietro De Martino

Nuove instituzioni di aritmetica pratica, 1762 (from BEIC digital library.)

Pietro De Martino or Di Martino (31 May 1707 – 28 January 1746) was an Italian mathematician and astronomer.[1]

Biografia

Born in Faicchio, he was brother of Angelo, professor first of medical physics then of mathematics at the University of Naples; and of Nicola Antonio De Martino, professor di mathematics and director of the Real Corpo degli Ingegneri (Royal Engineers Corp) and Marine Guard. Pietro De Martino was a pupil of Agostino Ariani and of Giacinto De Cristoforo (1650-1730). In 1735 he was assigned of the astronomical and nautical chair at the University of Naples.[1][2]

He disputed with Roger Joseph Boscovich on the question if it is possible to gain a right result starting from a wrong hypothesis.[1]

He authored various works; his Nuove istituzioni di aritmetica pratica, published originally in 1739 in Naples, had many reprints (the better known of the 1758; one also in Turin in 1762).[1] He died in Naples in 1746.

Works

  • Euclide; Pietro di Martino (1736). Degli elementi della geometria piana composti da Euclide Megarese (in Italian). Napoli: Nella stamperia di Felice Mosca.
  • Pietro Di Martino (1738). Philosophiae naturalis institutionum libri tres. : in neapolitani juventutis emolumentam majori, qua potuit, diligentia / a Petro Martino astronomii, nauticique in neapolitana schola regio professore: necnon instituti Bononiensis socio concinnati (in Italian). Napoli.
  • De Martino, Pietro (1762) [1739]. Nuove instituzioni di aritmetica pratica (in Italian). In Torino: Stamperia reale Torino.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Pietro De Martino. Dizionario biografico degli italiani. Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana.
  2. ↑ "Pietro Di Martino". www.beniculturali.inaf.it. Retrieved 2017-07-07.
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