biography
pronunciation:
[pyatsee]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1746–1826)
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| biography:
| Astronomer, born in Ponte di Valtellina, N Italy. He became a Theatine monk, professor of theology in Rome (1779), and professor of mathematics at the Academy of Palermo (1780). He set up an observatory at Palermo in 1789, published a catalogue of the stars (1803, 1814), and discovered and named the first minor planet, Ceres. |
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