Rudjer Boscovich

Rudjer Joseph Boscovich (first name also sometimes spelled Roger in English; Italian Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich; Croatian and Serbian Ru?er Josip Bo?kovi?, ????? ????? ????????) (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) who later lived in England, France and finally Italy.

Publications

Boscovich published eight scientific dissertations prior to his 1744 ordination as a priest and appointment as a professor and another 14 afterwards. The following is a partial list of his publications:

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• The Sunspots (1736)
• The Transit of Mercury (1737)
• The Aurora Borealis (1738)
• The Application of the Telescope in Astronomical Studies (1738)
• The Motion of the Heavenly Bodies in an Unresisting Medium (1740)
• The Different Effects of Gravity in Various Points of the Earth (1741)
• The Aberration of the Fixed Stars (1742)
• On the Ancient Villa Discovered on the Ridge of Tusculum (1745)
• On the ancient Sundial and Other Certain treasures found among the Ruins (1745)
• The Theory of Natural Philosophy (1758)