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| | Rudjer Josip Boscovich (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | 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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