Didacus de Revillas ( fl 1731 - 1734 )

Birth: Milan, Italy, Europe (4 July 1690) Death: 1740 Profession: Clergyman, Roman Catholic Research field: Metrology; topography; cartography; physics; physiology; meterorology; scientific instruments; mathematics; astronomy; antiquities Career: Member of the religious order of Girolaminians (joined Septeber 1710); came to Rome in 1721; lived in the monastry of St Alessio and Bonifacio on the Aventine Hill in Rome; Abbot of St Jerome, Rome; Chair of Methematics, University of Rome 'La Sapienza' (1725); carried out trigonometrical survey of central Italy; tutor to the Stuart princes in exile Memberships: Academy of Sciences of Bologna; Academy of Arcadians in Piacenza; Academie Royale des Sciences, Paris Membership: Fellow Election Date: 13/06/1734.