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  Rudjer Boscovich - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Boscovich also gave many important contributions to astronomy, including the first geometric procedure for determining the equator of a rotating planet from three observations of a surface feature and for computing the orbit of a planet from three observations of its position.
Boscovich was born in Dubrovnik, an independent republic at the time, as the seventh child of Nikola Bošković, a trader from Herzegovina; and Paula Bettera, daughter of a local noble.
Boscovich was selected to undertake an ambassadorship to London (1760), to vindicate the character of his native place and satisfy the government.
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 Rudjer Josip Boscovich Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Rudjer Joseph Boscovich (Croatian Ruđer Josip Bošković, Руђер Јосип Бошковић; Italian Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich, first name also sometimes spelled Roger in English) (May 18, 1711 February 13, 1787), was a Jesuit, physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat and poet from Dubrovnik (or Ragusa, the previously frequently referred to Italian version).
Boscovich was born in Dubrovnik to Nikola Bošković and Paula Bettera.
Dubrovnik was an independent republic at the time, and Ruđer Josip was the seventh child of a daughter of an Italic noble and a Slavic trader who immigrated from the hinterland, both Catholics.
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Rudjer Josip Boscovich (Serbian Ruđer Josip Bošković, Italian Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich) (May 18, 1711 - February 13, 1787), was a Serb-Italian Jesuit, physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat and poet from Dubrovnik (then Ragusa).
A dispute having arisen between the grand duke of Tuscany and the republic of Lucca with respect to the drainage of a lake, Boscovich was sent, in 1757, as agent of Lucca to Vienna, and succeeded in bringing about a satisfactory arrangement of the matter.
He was invited by the Royal Society of London to undertake an expedition to California to observe the Venus transit in 1769 again, but this was prevented by the recent decree of the Spanish government of the expulsion of the Jesuits from its dominions.
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 Read about Rudjer Boscovich at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Rudjer Boscovich and learn about Rudjer Boscovich ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Rudjer Boscovich's ethnicity is a controversial issue; he has Italian heritage from his mother's side, while his
Slavic heritage is disputed between the Croats who claim him due to the integration of Dubrovnik in the Croatian milieu, and the Serbs who claim him due to his father's reported descent from the noble
Ruggiero Giuseppe Boscovich at "Jesuits and the Sciences" (http://www.luc.edu/libraries/science/jesuits/1720.html#rb)
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Rudjer Joseph Boscovich (Croatian and Serbian Ruđer Josip Bošković, Руђер Јосип Бошковић; Italian Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich, first name also sometimes spelled Roger in English) (May 18, 1711 – February 13, 1787), was a Jesuit, physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat and poet from Dubrovnik (or Ragusa, the previously frequently referred to Italian version).
Rudjer Boscovich, by Norway's Physical Society (in PDF)
Ruggiero Giuseppe Boscovich at "Jesuits and the Sciences"
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 Boscovich, Ruggero Giuseppe
Boscovich on Point-like Atoms - Excerpts from the Child translation of Boscovich's 1763 classic Theory of Natural Philosophy.
Boscovich, Ruggiero Giuseppe - Dalmatian Jesuit and mathematician, astronomer, and physicist.
Dalmazia: Ruggero Boscovich - Concise profile by Antonio Fares.
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Rudjer Josip Boscovich (Croatian Ruđer Josip Bošković, Italian Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich) (May 18, 1711 - February 13, 1787), was a Croatian Jesuit, physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat and poet from Dubrovnik (then Ragusa).
He was born in Ragusa (now Dubrovnik) as the seventh child of his Serb father Nikola and Italian mother Paula Bettera.
Roger Joseph Boscovich, S.J. Bošković's bio from Norway's Physical Society
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 Boscovich, Ruggero Giuseppe Society, Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Conspiracy of Unified Field Theory Contends that Boscovich's theories played a key role in the foundations of Einstein's vision of a unified field theory.
Dalmazia: Ruggero Boscovich Concise profile by Antonio Fares.
Boscovich on Point-like Atoms Excerpts from the Child translation of Boscovich's 1763 classic Theory of Natural Philosophy.
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 Boscovich, Ruggero Giuseppe --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Boscovich, detail of a portrait by an unknown artist; in Dubrovnik Cloister, Croatia
Serbo-Croatian Rudjer Josip Boškovic astronomer and mathematician who gave the first geometric procedure for determining the equator of a rotating planet from three observations of a surface feature and for computing the orbit of a planet from three observations of its position.
Boscovich's father was a Croat and his mother was Italian.
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MacTutor History of Mathematics: Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich  · cached · Biographical article, with links to related topics, bibliography and a poster.
Jesuit Scientists: Roger Joseph Boscovich, S.J. cached · Illustrated profile of this 18th-century polymath.
Conspiracy of Unified Field Theory  · cached · Contends that Boscovich's theories played a key role in the foundations of Einstein's vision of a unified field theory.
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 Open Directory - Society:Philosophy:Philosophers:B   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Description: Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich (Ruggiero Giuseppe Boscovich, Roger Joseph Boscovich, Rudjer Josip Boskovic), 1711-1787.
This was an important early step in the philosophy of physics, and had a profound influence on the later electromagnetic theory of Maxwell.
Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich (Ruggiero Giuseppe Boscovich, Roger Joseph Boscovich, Rudjer Josip Boskovic), 1711-1787.
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Contends that Boscovich's theories played a key role in the foundations of Einstein's vision of a unified field theory.
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Excerpts from the Child translation of Boscovich's 1763 classic Theory of Natural Philosophy.
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