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Ruggero Giuseppe Boscovich

died 237 years ago

13 February 1787

Ruggero Boscovich's main work was in mathematical physics. He was the first to give a procedure to compute a planet's orbit from three observations of its position.

Find out more at: https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Boscovich/