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Don Paolo Frisi.
Don Paolo Frisi.
And. Appiani delin. Dom. Cagnoni sculp.Med.
[n.d., c.1770.]
Engraving, 201 x 151mm. Trimmed into plate and title area.
Paolo Frisi (1728 - 1784) was an Italian mathematician and astronomer. In 1753 he was elected a corresponding member of the Paris Academy of Sciences, and shortly afterwards he became professor of philosophy in the Barnabite College of St Alexander at Milan. An acrimonious attack by a young Jesuit, about this time, upon his dissertation on the figure of the earth laid the foundation of his animosity against the Jesuits, with whose enemies, including Jean d'Alembert, J. A. N. Condorcet and other Encyclopedists, he later closely associated himself. In 1757 he became an associate of the Imperial Academy of St Petersburg, and a foreign member of the Royal Society of London, and in 1758 a member of the Academy of Berlin, in 1766 of that of Stockholm, and in 1770 of the Academies of Copenhagen and of Bern. From several European crowned heads he received, at various times, marks of special distinction, and the empress Maria Theresa granted him a yearly pension of 100 sequins. His knowledge of hydraulics caused him to be frequently consulted with respect to the management of canals and other watercourses in various parts of Europe. It was through his means that lightning conductors were first introduced into Italy for the protection of buildings.
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[Vittorio Amadeo Maria III of Sardinia]
[Vittorio Amadeo Maria III of Sardinia] Victorius Amedeus III. Caroli Emanuelis I ex Polixena filius, Sardiniae, Cypri, et Hierusalem Rex III.
Visca delineavit Dom Cagnoni sculp [1780] Bit later.
Engraving, 18th century watermark; platemark 310 x 250mm (12¼ x 9¾").
Vittorio Amadeo III (1726-96), King of Sardinia from 1773 until his death. In 1750 Vittorio Amadeo married the Infanta Maria Antonietta of Spain, strengthening ties between Madrid and Turin. He declared war on Revolutionary France in 1792 but after four years of fighting was forced to cede the Treaty of Paris surrendering various possessions to the French.
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