Paolo Del Buono

Background

Paolo Del Buono was born on October 26, 1625, in Florence, Tuscany, Italy, the son of Leonido and Bartolomea Andreini.

Education

A Florentine disciple of Famiano Michelini, Paolo Del Buono received his doctorate from the University of Pisa in 1649.

Career

Six years after graduation, Del Buono went to Germany in the service of Emperor Ferdinand III, who appointed him president of the mint and offered him honors and rich prizes if he could devise a mechanism to draw water from mines. In order to make practical studies, in 1657 and 1658 he visited the imperial mines in the Carpathians, accompanied by Geminiano Montanari, a doctor of jurisprudence whom he had instructed in the sciences. The death of the emperor and the disturbances that broke out in Germany made it necessary for him to go to Poland, where he died about a year later.

Achievements

• Paolo Del Buono was a scientific instrument maker, whose contributions include an instrument to demonstrate the incompressibility of water and communication from Vienna that states that water enclosed in glass vials with very thin necks generates air in amounts dependent on the temperature of the environment. The Cimento Academy confirmed this phenomenon, concerning which Giovanni Borelli and Viviani gave conflicting explanations.

Membership

Paolo Del Buono is included among the correspondents of the Cimento Academy, along with his older brother, Father Candido, and his younger brother, Anton Maria.

Connections

Father:

Leonido Del Buono

Mother:

Bartolomea Andreini Del Buono

Brother:

Candido Del Buono

Candido Del Buono was a Florentine priest, and scientific instrument maker, who invented an aerometer and constructed a device to measure the density of vapor.

Brother:

Anton Maria Del Buono

References

• Le opere di Galileo Galilei
  1890
• Storia Del Metodo Sperimentale in Italia: Del Metodo Sperimentale Applicato Alla Scienza Del Moto Dell Acque
  1891
• Dictionary of Scientific Biography, Volume II
  1970