- First name
- Giuseppe
- Last name
- Campani, de
- Date of Birth
- 1625
- Date of Death
- 1715
- Born in
- Castel San Felice
- Died in
- Rome
Giuseppe de Campani worked in Rome as a clockmaker, mechanic, astronomer and commercial optician. He was the builder of huge powerful long-focal-length refracting telescopes of great excellence. Constantijn Huygens Sr possessed a so-called ‘Campanine’. See: Bedini, 1962; DSB, vol. 3, p. 23; DBI.