Domenico Troili

Deceased Person

1722 – 1792

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Who was Domenico Troili?

Domenico Troili was an Italian abbate and a Jesuit, who held the appointment of custodian of the library of the ruling family of Este in Modena. He is recognized as the first person who documented the fall of a meteorite, in 1766.

Troili was a pupil of Roger Joseph Boscovich at the Collegio Romano, and supported his master's atomic theory explaining the properties of matter.

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Born
1722
Died
1792

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on July 23, 2013

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