It
comes consecrated, after two years, Abbot in the Cathedral S. Nicolò of
Messina.
In
the XVI° century
Messina
touches the apex of its economic
prosperity: swarms of bankers, the mint mints own currency, the serica
industry assumes such dimensions that come granted the institution of a
"Consulate of the silk", its Senate seats like an independent
assembly, is equipped of special statutos that of it they make a city
seed-monarch, the Strong S. Salvatore is bastion and defense of the
city, comes constructed to bastions and such fortifications to render
Messina almost impregnable.
Much
fervor could not not be reflected also on the art, the culture and
sciences.
It
comes founded in the 1548 University of the Studies, you mathematical
standard Francisco Maurolico who in 1571 points out to Don Giovanni of
Austria proper course for the east; it collaborates, between the other,
to the planning of churches, the Fontanas and fortifications: he tos be
distant us of the Fontanas of Orione and Neptune, Gonzaga fort.
In
the doctor-scientific field Francisco Maurolico, describing the
operation of the human eye, holds already account of the function of the
crystalline one in the accommodation.
The
scientific work "Photismi de lumine ET umbra" draft of the
refraction and the determination of the fire of a disc of a valve and
proposes one explanation of the phenomenon of the rainbow. In its work
more important "Arithmeticorum books pair" (1575) the
systematic use of letters in place of the numbers is found and a first
example of reasoning founded on the use of the " principle of
induction total".
The
"mathematica Opuscola" (1575) other its work, contains the
calculation of the barycentre
of
various bodies (pyramid, paraboloide etc).
In
the "Sicanicarum rerum compendium" , a history of the
Sicily, some autobiographic elements find themselves.
Francesco
Maurolico dies in 1575.
Its
empty ones are found to Messina in the Church of Saint Giovanni di
Malta.
