Richard White (mathematician)

Title page of the 1648 Hemisphaerium Dissectum

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. His brother, Thomas White was a Roman Catholic theologian and scholar. He married Catherine Weston, daughter of the Earl of Portland.[1]

In the preface of his book Hemisphaerium Dissectum, printed in Rome with the Inquisition's permission, he wrote with great admiration of Galileo Galilei.[2] He also had with Galileo a friendly correspondence by letter.[3]

White was proposed for election to the Philosophical Society in June 1661, and was elected on 26 June 1661. However, he was not re-elected after the second charter in 1663 and is not listed as an original fellow of the Royal Society.[4]

Works

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

References

  1. ↑ "Record. White; Richard (fl 1661)". royalsociety.org.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ Favaro, Antonio (1894). Amici e corrispondenti di Galileo Galilei (in Italian). Venice: Carlo Ferrari. pp. 16–17.
  4. ↑ de Beer, E. S. (1950). "The Earliest Fellows of the Royal Society". Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London. 7: 172–192.
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