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Vittorio Francesco Stancari was born in Bologna in 1678.
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In 1698 he became a professor of mathematics at the University of Bologna. Stancari was one of a group of young men at the University who became interested in the techniques of Cartesian geometry and differential calculus, and who engaged in experiments and astronomical observation. Of these, Gabriele Manfredi developed the most advanced understanding of mathematics.
Stancari was awarded the chair of infinitesimal calculus in Bologna in 1708.
He died in Bologna in 1709, aged about 31.
