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Francesco Zantedeschi died 1873

Francesco Zantedeschi (August 20, 1797 – March 29, 1873) was an Italian Catholic priest and physicist.

A native of Dolcè, near Verona, Zantedeschi was for some time professor of physics and philosophy in the Liceo of Venice. Later he accepted the chair of physics in the University of Padua, which he held until 1853 being then obliged to resign on account of failing sight. He was an ardent worker and prolific writer, 325 memoirs and communications appearing under his name in the Biblioteca Italiana and the Bibliothèque universelle de Genève.

Zantedeschi died at Padua in 1873. – Wikipedia

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