Giovanni Battista Venturi
1746-1822
Venturi was an Italian physicist. He was the discoverer of the Venturi effect; the Venturi pump and Venturi tube are named after him Born in Bibbiano, he was a contemporary of Lagrange and Laplace. He
was ordained as a priest in 1769, and in the same year appointed as a
teacher of
logic at the
seminary of
Reggio Emilia.
In 1774 he became a professor of geometry and philosophy at the
University of Modena,
where in 1776 he became professor of
physics. Venturi was the first to call attention to
the importance of
Leonardo da Vinci
as a scientist, and compiled and published many of
Galileo's
manuscripts and letters. |