Francesco Ventretti
Francesco Ventretti (1713–1784) was an Italian mathematician.
Del modo di trovare la fisica proporzione che hanno fra di loro due linee rette e due porzioni di circonferenze di cerchj, 1768
Life
Ventretti taught at the Military College of Verona and in 1773 invented the orosmeter, a tool to make precision measurements of hillside gradients.[1]
Gaetano Marzagaglia commented on his works.
Works
- Ventretti, Francesco (1752). Genesi di tutti li triangoli rettangoli numerici (in Italian). In Verona: Antonio Andreoni.
- Ventretti, Francesco (1768). Del modo di trovare la fisica proporzione che hanno fra di loro due linee rette e due porzioni di circonferenze di cerchj (in Italian). In Verona: Agostino Carattoni.
- Ventretti, Francesco (1789). Dialoghi matematici (in Italian). In Verona: Dionigi Ramanzini.
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