Pietro De Martino

Pietro De Martino or Di Martino (31 May 1707 – 28 January 1746) was an Italian mathematician and astronomer.[1]

Nuove instituzioni di aritmetica pratica, 1762 (from BEIC digital library.)

Biography

Born in Faicchio, he was brother of Angelo, professor first of medical physics then of mathematics at the University of Naples; and of Nicola Antonio De Martino, professor di mathematics and director of the Real Corpo degli Ingegneri (Royal Engineers Corp) and Marine Guard. Pietro De Martino was a pupil of Agostino Ariani and of Giacinto De Cristoforo (1650-1730). In 1735 he was assigned of the astronomical and nautical chair at the University of Naples.[1][2]

He disputed with Roger Joseph Boscovich on the question if it is possible to gain a right result starting from a wrong hypothesis.[1]

He authored various works; his Nuove istituzioni di aritmetica pratica, published originally in 1739 in Naples, had many reprints (the better known of the 1758; one also in Turin in 1762).[1] He died in Naples in 1746.[3]

Works
  • Pietro Di Martino (1741). De corporum quae moventur viribus, earumque aestimandarum ratione (in Latin). Neapoli: [Felice Mosca]. pp. 108 p., III plates, 4°.
  • Pietro Di Martino (1740). De luminis refractione et motu (in Latin). Neapoli. pp. 20 p., 3 plates : ill., 4°.
  • Pietro di Martino (1739). Nuove istituzioni di aritmetica pratica composte da Pietro Martino professore di astronomia nell'Università di Napoli, e dedicate all'eccellentiss. signore D. Severo Carmignano (in Italian). In Napoli: Nella Stamperia di Felice Carlo Mosca.
  • Pietro Di Martino (1738). Philosophiae naturalis institutionum libri tres. In Neapolitanae juventutis emolumentum majori, qua potuit, diligentia a Petro Martino astronomiae, nauticaeque in Neapolitana schola regio professore (in Latin). Neapoli: excudebat Felix Carolus Mosca.
  • Euclide; Pietro di Martino (1736). Degli elementi della geometria piana composti da Euclide Megarese, e nuovamente illustrati. Libri 6 (in Italian). In Napoli: nella stamperia di Felice Mosca. pp. [12], 338, [2] p. : ill., 8º.
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References
  1. Pietro De Martino. Dizionario biografico degli italiani. Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana.
  2. "Pietro Di Martino". www.beniculturali.inaf.it. Retrieved 2017-07-07.
  3. "Pietro Di Martino". Museo degli Strumenti Astronomici. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
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