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Lo Gnomone Clementino Astronomia Meridiana in Basilica
Costantino Sigismondi
The Clementine Gnomon realized in 1702 by the astronomer Francesco Bianchini (1661-1729) upon the will of Pope Clement XI (1700-1721) in the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli in…
Callisto III e la Cometa di Halley: la ricerca di Johan Stein SJ tra leggenda e storia
Costantino Sigismondi
The Dutch Jesuit astronomer Johan Stein published in 1909 a text about the legend on a papal bull of Pope Callixtus III against the comet of 1456. This comet happened to be the Hal…
Ipotesi astronomiche sul foro della colonna augustea di Santa Maria in Aracoeli
Costantino Sigismondi
The third column of the left row in the Basilica of Santa Maria in Aracoeli in Rome, has a hole carved in it, of probable astronomical use. The tube aims at a point a 116 degrees o…
La meridiana di Egnazio Danti nella Torre dei Venti in Vaticano: un'icona della riforma Gregoriana del calendario
Costantino Sigismondi
The meridian line traced by Egnazio Danti in the Torre dei Venti in Vatican demostrated the need of the Gregorian Reformation of the Calendar. A review on this instrument is presen…
L'Astronomia del Venerdi' Santo e l'ora della Sindone
Costantino Sigismondi
The solar eclipse of Good Friday has always been recognized as a problem from the astronomical point of view. The date of Crucifixion has been investigated by many scholars and the…
Il Santo Sepolcro, orientamento astronomico della basilica e le omelie di san Cirillo di Gerusalemme
Costantino Sigismondi
On the spur of Calvary the Shroud appears. On this rock the Scriptures are fulfilled, and this rock, located exactly to the West of the Temple of Jerusalem, becomes mystically the…