Francesco Castracane degli Antelminelli (b. Fano, Italy, 19 July 1817; d. This article is about the Italian town For the Danish island see Fanø. Events 711 - Muslim forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by their king Roderic. Year 1817 ( MDCCCXVII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Rome 27 March 1899) was an Italian naturalist. Events 196 BC - Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt. 1309 - Pope Clement V excommunicates Year 1899 ( MDCCCXCIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common
He was educated at the Jesuits' school in Reggio Emilia, and was ordained priest in 1840. The Society of Jesus ( Latin: Societas Iesu, SJ and SI or SJ, SI) is a Catholic religious order For the city in the southern Italy See Reggio Calabria. For the basketball club "Bipop Carire Reggio Emilia" see Pallacanestro Reggiana. Four years later he was made canon of the cathedral in Fano, and at the same time resumed his studies at the Collegio dei Nobili in Rome. A canon (from the Latin canonicus, itself derived from the Greek κανωνικος 'relating to a rule' is a priest who is a member of certain bodies of the In 1852 he resigned his canonry, and took up his residence in Rome. Castracane had a love of nature, and during the latter half of his life devoted himself to biological research. He was reportedly one of the first to introduce microphotography into the study of biology. His first experiments in applying the camera to the microscope were made as early as 1862 with diatomaceæ, and he subsequently made these microorganisms his chief study. He investigated their structure and physiological functions and, particularly in his last years, their processes of reproduction, also on account of its bearing on some of the problems of biology, geology, and even hydrography. Hydrography focuses on the measurement of physical characteristics of Waters and marginal land
The extensive collections of diatomaceæ obtained by the Challenger Expedition were entrusted to him for description and classification[1]. The Challenger Expedition was a scientific expedition that made many discoveries to lay the foundation of Oceanography. He discovered among them three new genera, two hundred and twenty-five new species, and some thirty new varieties. A genus (plural genera from Γένος Latin genus "descent family type gender" is a low-level Taxonomic He was the author of a large number of papers, published chiefly in the proceedings of the Accademia dei Nuovi Lincei, over whose meetings he presided for many years. The Accademia dei Lincei, (literally the " Academy of the Lynxes" but also known as the Lincean Academy) is an Italian science academy located
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- ^ Antelminelli's report on the Challenger data. Also here, with full download.
External links
- TONI, Commemorzione del conte ab. F. Castracane degli Antelminelli in Mem. della Pont. Accad. dei Nuovi Lincei (Rome, 1899), XVI;
- MENGARINI-TRAUBE, Castracane degli Antelminelli in Biolog. Centralblatt (Leipzig, 1900), XX, 401-402, 433-447
- This article incorporates text from the entry Francesco Castracane degli Antelminelli in the public-domain Catholic Encyclopedia of 1913. The public domain is a range of abstract materials &ndash commonly referred to as Intellectual property &ndash which are not owned or controlled by anyone The Catholic Encyclopedia, also referred to today as the Old Catholic Encyclopedia, is an English-language Encyclopedia published by The Encyclopedia
- Photograph, in the Natural History Museum