Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Giovanni Battista Riccioli

16th century Italian theologian and astronomer

Date of Birth: 17-Apr-1598

Place of Birth: Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Date of Death: 25-Jun-1671

Profession: astronomer, writer, theologian, university teacher, cartographer, selenographer

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Giovanni Battista Riccioli (17 April 1598 – 25 June 1671) was an Italian astronomer and a Catholic priest in the Jesuit order.
He is known, among other things, for his experiments with pendulums and with falling bodies, for his discussion of 126 arguments concerning the motion of the Earth, and for introducing the current scheme of lunar nomenclature.
He is also widely known for discovering the first double star.
He argued that the rotation of the Earth should reveal itself because on a rotating Earth, the ground moves at different speeds at different times.