A dream through the mind of Schiaparelli in his youth : build a coherent history of astronomy, as they had done in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century, French astronomers JS Bailly and JB Delambre.
Schiaparelli was unable to complete a real treaty, but his numerous writings on the history of ancient astronomy is still a landmark reference for scholars.
historical research Schiaparelli he applied the same method and with the same tenacity as they did for the observational research and, increasingly, with particular attention to the original sources: the end of his life he could read Greek, Hebrew , Assyrian and Babylonian and could also write in these languages. Among astronomers
"modern", then, Schiaparelli always felt in complete harmony with the great Kepler, which, in 1857, thus writes in his diary from Berlin:
"I just bought Nicolai from the first part of the new edition of the works of Kepler and man ... weird and funny. In truth, my head is very small, but still like her. He also has the habit of wandering in thought in a thousand extravagances, and also reach the seventh page of his letters, without having done yet word of his main store. He says in a certain place that the soul of Pythagoras rose in him, so I could say that his past is in me. Both are named John, both have great sympathy for the speculations regarding the harmony of the world if its name is added to an S in front of his Duth way, we find Skeppler, and there are the same radicals in Skiapparel! Ah, bad crazy! More ... earnestly the works of Kepler. This man attracts me so invincible .... Joannes Skepplerus "Credits: Archives of the Observatory of Brera, GV Schiaparelli Fund
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