Background
Luca Valerio was born in Naples in 1553 He entered in the Jesuit order in 1570.
Luca Valerio was born in Naples in 1553 He entered in the Jesuit order in 1570.
He studied philosophy and theology at the Roman College as a student of Christopher Clavius, and left the Jesuits in 1580.
He developed ways to find volumes and centers of gravity of solid bodies using the methods of Archimedes. He later taught rhetoric and Greek at the Collegio Pontifico Greco and mathematics and ethics at the Sapienza University of Rome. Galileo and Copernicus Valerio met Galileo on a visit to Pisa in 1584.
The prospect of being called before the Inquisition caused Valerio to end all correspondence with Galileo and resign from the Accademia dei Lincei.
His resignation was rejected by the Accademia, but they took away his right to participate in Accademia meetings Quadratura parabolae per simplex falsum, Rome 1606.
Lincean Academy]
He corresponded with Galileo Galilei and was a member of the Accademia dei Lincei. He corresponded with Galileo from 1609 until 1616 and in 1612 he became a member of the Accademia dei Lincei, a group which also included Galileo as a member. The members of the Academy looked on Valerio"s actions as aligning himself with Galileo"s opponents and accusing the Academy itself of committing a crime.