Richard White (mathematician)

Richard White (Latin: Ricardus Albius; 1590 – 1682) was an English mathematician and physicist.

A Catholic from Essex, he studied under Benedetto Castelli in Pisa and lived mostly in Italy. In the preface of his book Hemisphaerium Dissectum, printed in Rome with the Inquisition's permission, he wrote with great admiration of Galileo Galilei.^[1] He also had with Galileo a friendly correspondence by letter.^[2]

Works

Hemisphaerium Dissectum, Opus Geometricum (in Latin). Rome: Manelfo Manelfi. 1648.

References

^ Catalogue of the Mathematical, Historical and Miscellaneous Portion of the Celebrated Library of M. Guglielmo Libri. Vol. 2. S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson. 1861. p. 791.
^ Favaro, Antonio (1894). Amici e corrispondenti di Galileo Galilei (in Italian). Venice: Carlo Ferrari. pp. 16–17.

[1] Catalogue of the Mathematical, Historical and Miscellaneous Portion of the Celebrated Library of M. Guglielmo Libri. Vol. 2. S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson. 1861. p. 791.

[2] Favaro, Antonio (1894). Amici e corrispondenti di Galileo Galilei (in Italian). Venice: Carlo Ferrari. pp. 16–17.

[1]

[2]