Lucchini, Domenico ( -1737)

Modo di formare l'orologio astronomico solare nel piano orizontale, etc. With short extracts, notes and fragments on sundials. Illustrated with numerous pen-drawn figures and diagrams. These oddments appear to be extracted from, or based on the author's 'Trattenimenti matematici i quali comprendono tavole orarie per gli orologi a sole orizzontale verticale ...' Rome. 1732. His name appears on the verso of the leaf headed 'Opera per trovare la Meridiana ne i tre giorni de gli due mesi dell Equinozi', which states that 'Questa operazione e stata desunta dal Libro Orografico di Domenico Luchini Cap IV stampato in Roma l'anno 1730'.

c. 1735

1 volume 54 ll. folio & 4to. v.s. Unbound.

Purchased 1928.

Database description transcribed from S.A.J. Moorat, Catalogue of Western Manuscripts on Medicine and Science in the Wellcome Historical Medical Library (London: Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, 1962-1973).

D. Lucchini is entered in Vol. IV of Rotermund's 'Fortsetzung' to Jöcher's 'Gelehrten Lexicon'.