Candido del Buono (22 July 1618, Florence – 19 September 1676, Campoli[1]) was an Italian scientific instrument maker.
Candido del Buono, a Florentine priest, attended Famiano Michelini's (1604–1665) mathematics lectures with his brother Paolo Del Buono (1625-1659). Del Buono was the Chamberlain of the Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova in Florence and a member of the Accademia del Cimento, where he presented several instruments of his invention.[2] He invented an aerometer and constructed a device to measure the density of vapor.[1] There is no clear documentary evidence of whether he or his other brother Anton Maria Del Buono was the inventor of the arcicanna, a complex system that solved some typical problems of large telescopes in the second half of the 17th century.[3]
References
edit- ^ a b "Christiaan Huygens, Oeuvres complètes. Tome III. Correspondance 1660-1661". Digital Library for Dutch Literature. (in French)
- ^ Bedini, Silvio A. Patrons, Artisans, and Instruments of Science, 1600–1750. Vol. 635. Variorum, 1999. pp. 42–44.
- ^ Monaco, Giuseppe (1998). "Strumentaria Alcune Considerazioni sul Maximus Tubus di Hevelius". Nuncius. 13 (2): 533–550.
External links
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- "Candido del Buono". Catalogue of the Museo Galileo's Instruments on Display. Italy: Museo Galileo.
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