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"Monsignor Francesco Bianchini was the culture tsar of Rome under his friend Pope Clement XI, who reigned from 1700 to 1721. Famous as an astronomer, historian, and archaeologist, Bianchini also dabbled in high-stakes diplomacy and low-level espionage. Monsignor's scientific expertise ranged from observational astronomy to the imaginative reconstruction of ancient monuments. He discovered several comets; designed and built a glorious solar observatory in a Roman basilica; discovered and interpreted ancient inscriptions; and wrote an account of the first 32 centuries of human history, from the Creation to the fall of Assyria. During the first part of Clement's 20-year reign, which was dominated by the War of the Spanish Succession, Bianchini visited England while on a diplomatic mission to France. In London he met Newton, who esteemed him as one of the world's very few "candid seekers of truth," and in Paris he met James Stuart, the claimant to the thrones of Britain. When James set up his court-in-exile in Italy, his good friend Bianchini became one of the courtiers. Heilbron presents Bianchini as an exemplar of the churchman-diplomat-scholar of the time, deeply learned yet caught up in worldly affairs. Heilbron's account roves with ease, verve, and wit between erudition and antiquities, astronomy and history, and international and papal politics whose high point was the daring rescue of an imprisoned princess"--

Scientists --- Philosophers --- Scientifiques --- Philosophes --- Vie intellectuelle --- Bianchini, Francesco, --- Italy --- Intellectual life --- Historians --- Bianchini, Francisco, --- Blanchini, Francisci --- Blanchinus, Franciscus --- Blanchinus Veronensis, Franciscus --- Veronensis, Franciscus Blanchinus --- 52 <092> --- 215 --- 165.9 --- 165.9 Geschiedenis der kennis. Ontwikkeling van de mythologie tot wetenschap --- 165.9 Geschiedenis van de wetenschappelijke ontwikkeling en kennis --- Geschiedenis der kennis. Ontwikkeling van de mythologie tot wetenschap --- Geschiedenis van de wetenschappelijke ontwikkeling en kennis --- 215 Godsdienst en wetenschap --- 215 Religion et science --- Godsdienst en wetenschap --- Religion et science --- 52 <092> Astronomie. Astrofysica. Ruimteonderzoek. Geodesie--Biografieën --- 52 <092> Astronomy. Astrophysics. Space research. Geodesy--Biografieën --- Astronomie. Astrofysica. Ruimteonderzoek. Geodesie--Biografieën --- Astronomy. Astrophysics. Space research. Geodesy--Biografieën --- Bianchini, Francesco