- First name
- Giovanni Alfonso
- Last name
- Borelli
- Date of Birth
- 1608
- Date of Death
- 1679
- Born in
- Naples
- Died in
- Rome
Giovanni Alfonso Borelli was interested in applied mathematics, mechanics in astronomy and animal physiology. He was one of the first scholars to calculate comets to be moving in elliptical orbits. See: DSB, vol. 2, pp. 306–14; Boschiero, 2007, pp. 59–92; id, 2008 (on comets); DBI.