Giuseppe Rosati (Foggia, 21 September 1752; Foggia, 1 September 1814) was an Italian physician, agronomist, philosopher and mathematician. He was born in Foggia to Raffaele Rosati and Marianna Giannone. He attended the University of Medicine in Naples and, at the same time, he studied philosophy, agronomy and mathematics. In Naples, he started to write many works about agronomy, medicine, geography and mathematics. Upon returning to Foggia, he devoted himself to teaching the young and became the "doctor of the poor".
Biography He graduated in Medicine from the University of Naples Federico II, and at the same time studied and conducted research in various scientific disciplines such as mathematics, geography, architecture, and agronomy. Upon his return to Foggia in 1804, he was awarded a professorship in Agriculture, later Rural Economics, at the College of the Piarist Fathers, and in 1810 he became president of the Agricultural Society, later the Royal Economic Society of Capitanata di Foggia. Nicknamed the Newton of Puglia, he devoted his energies to the training and education of young people and wrote numerous works in various fields of his culture.
Main works La geografia moderna, teoretica, istorica e pratica, Napoli, Raimondi, 1785 Gli elementi dell’agrimensura teoretica e pratica, Napoli, Raimondi, 1787 Discorso sull’agricoltura di Puglia 1792 Elementi dell’aritmetica, Napoli, 1796 Il metodo millenario, Foggia, 1803 Elementi per l’edificazione, con 11 tavole, Napoli, Coda, 1805 Le industrie di Puglia, con una carta geografica incisa dall’autore, Foggia, Variento, 1808 Breviario dell’Historia sacra, Foggia, Russo, 1815 Saggio storico sulla medicina, Foggia, Russo, 1826 Geometria pratica. La piana, Napoli, Caggiano & C., 1832–33
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