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Roger Joseph Boscovich (Serbo-Croatian: Ruđer Josip Bošković, pronounced [rûd͡ʑer jǒsip bôʃkoʋit͡ɕ], Italian: Ruggiero Giuseppe Boscovich) (see also names in other languages); 18 May 1711 – 13 February 1787) was a Ragusan physicist, astronomer, mathematician, philosopher, diplomat, poet, theologian, Jesuit priest, and a polymath from the city of Dubrovnik in the Republic of Ragusa (modern-day Croatia), who studied and lived in Italy and France where he also published many of his works.He produced a precursor of atomic theory and made many contributions to astronomy, including the first geometric procedure for determining the equator of a rotating planet from three observations of a surface feature and for computing the orbit of a planet from three observations of its position.

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Boscovich, Roger Joseph Roger Joseph Boscovich

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Ragusan priest and mathematician

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dbpedia:Pontifical_Gregorian_University

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1711-05-18Z

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1711-01-01Z

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dbpedia:Republic_of_Ragusa

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1787-02-13Z

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dbpedia:Milan dbpedia:Duchy_of_Milan

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1787-01-01Z

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dbpedia:Mathematics dbpedia:Diplomacy dbpedia:Poetry dbpedia:Physics dbpedia:Astronomy dbpedia:Theology dbpedia:Natural_philosophy

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dbpedia:Gottfried_Wilhelm_Leibniz

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dbpedia:Brera_Astronomical_Observatory dbpedia:Atomic_theory

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dbpedia:Venice dbpedia:Paris dbpedia:Rome dbpedia:Milan dbpedia:Istanbul dbpedia:Bassano_del_Grappa dbpedia:Dubrovnik

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