Giuseppe Rosati
Giuseppe Rosati 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, 1785Gli elementi dell’agrimensura teoretica e pratica, Napoli, Raimondi, 1787Discorso sull’agricoltura di Puglia 1792Elementi dell’aritmetica, Napoli, 1796Il metodo millenario, Foggia, 1803Elementi per l’edificazione, con 11 tavole, Napoli, Coda, 1805Le industrie di Puglia, con una carta geografica incisa dall’autore, Foggia, Variento, 1808Breviario dell’Historia sacra, Foggia, Russo, 1815Saggio storico sulla medicina, Foggia, Russo, 1826Geometria pratica. La piana, Napoli, Caggiano & C., 1832–33