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2 unusual facts about Benedetto Castelli


Mizar and Alcor

More components of the Mizar system were discovered with the advent of the telescope and spectroscopy; a fine, easily-split visual target, Mizar was the first telescopic binary discovered—most probably by Benedetto Castelli who in 1617 asked Galileo Galilei to observe it.

Vincenzo Gamba

His father encouraged him to study law in Pisa, entrusting him to Benedetto Castelli (1577/1578–1643).



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