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Niccolò Zucchi (Italian pronunciation: [nikkoˈlɔ ˈttsukki]; December 6, 1586 – May 21, 1670) was an Italian Jesuit, astronomer, and physicist.As an astronomer he may have been the first to see the belts on the planet Jupiter (on May 17, 1630), and reported spots on Mars in 1640.His "Optica philosophia experimentis et ratione a fundamentis constituta", published in 1652–56, described his 1616 experiments using a curved mirror instead of a lens as a telescope objective, which may be the earliest known description of a reflecting telescope.

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  • Niccolò Zucchi (Italian pronunciation: [nikkoˈlɔ ˈttsukki]; December 6, 1586 – May 21, 1670) was an Italian Jesuit, astronomer, and physicist.As an astronomer he may have been the first to see the belts on the planet Jupiter (on May 17, 1630), and reported spots on Mars in 1640.His "Optica philosophia experimentis et ratione a fundamentis constituta", published in 1652–56, described his 1616 experiments using a curved mirror instead of a lens as a telescope objective, which may be the earliest known description of a reflecting telescope.
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  • Itlain Jesuit astronomer and physicist
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