Works
He published Mensuration of Running Water, an important work on fluids in motion, and then his Geometrical Demonstrations of the Measure of Running Waters in which the publishing notes described him as Abbot of Cassina and Mathematician to Pope Urban VIII, once a supporter of his mentor, Galileo.
He dedicated both publications to "the most Illustrious, and most Excellent Prince", Taddeo Barberini, a nephew of Pope Urban. In reality, Barberini was neither; he had appointed himself "Prince" of the Palestrina comune bought by the Barberini family and was "illustrious" because he had amassed great wealth during his uncle's reign as Pope.
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