Francesco Algarotti
1712–64
Venetian poet and scholar. Visited London, where he pursued Newtonian studies, in 1736. Created a count in the Prussian nobility, 1741; chamberlain, 1746. Returned to Italy in 1753. FRS 1736.
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ODNB
Bibliography
ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.
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