Asteroids named after people called Niccolo
馃懚 Niccolo as a baby name
Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia (1499-1557) was an Italian mathematician, engineer and topographer. Known for his 1543 translation of Euclid's Elements into Italian, his most renowned work is Trattato di numeri et misure. He provided a very elegant formulation for the volume of the tetrahedron, including irregular tetrahedra.Discovered 8 July 1994 by E. W. Elst, Caussols
Niccol貌 Machiavelli (1469-1527) was a Florentine statesman, Italian political theorist and writer who advocated a strong central government. His famous treatise, The Prince (1513), describes the achievement and maintenance of power by a determined ruler indifferent to moral considerations.Discovered 7 December 1999 by C. W. Juels, Fountain Hills
Niccol貌 Bucciantini (b. 1976) is an astronomer at the Arcetri Observatory in Florence. He was the third Italian to win the prestigious Hubble Fellowship. He is known for his work on relativistic magnetohydrodynamics, the Crab Nebula and is a proponent of the magnetar model for Gamma Ray Bursts.Discovered 4 April 2005 by Tesi, L., Fagioli, G., San Marcello
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