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Orazio Grassi SJ (b....
Born in Savona in , Orazio Grassi entered the Jesuit Order at the age of eighteen, and soon became a professor of mathematics, first in Genoa and then.
Orazio Grassi
Italian Jesuit priest, architect and scientist (1583–1654)
Orazio GrassiSJ (b. Savona 1 May 1583 – d. Rome 23 July 1654) was an ItalianJesuit priest, who is best noted as a mathematician, astronomer and architect.
He was one of the authors in controversy with Galileo Galilei on the nature of comets. His writings against Galileo were published under the pseudonym Sarsi.[1]
Early life
Grassi was born in Savona, then part of the Republic of Genoa.
Born in Savona in the last decade of the s, a Jesuit of great fame was the antagonist of the great Galilei.He entered the novitiate of the Society of Jesus at the Church of Sant'Andrea al Quirinale in Rome in 1600. Following his profession of his first religious vows in 1603, he began studies at the Roman College, there taking courses in philosophy, theology and mathematics.
Among his professors were the noted German Jesuit mathematicians, Christopher Clavius, Christoph Grienberger and Odo Van Maelcote. He continued his studies there until 1610.[2]
In 1614 Grassi was assigned to serve as Jesuit co