URANIA LIGUSTICA
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In 1983 a project began: it aims to study primary sources and critical literature to find out and analyse the connections between Liguria and the sky, from the Middle Ages to the last century. It is a history for places, to discover people and organizations which were involved in astronomy in various ways: for research, teaching, pleasure, and in everyday applications, as the measure of time.
The project was presented on 1996 in a symposium of the National Research Council 
CNR. It has an interdisciplinary character: I devote the same attention to well known scientists as Orazio Grassi, Giambattista Baliani and Franz Xaver von Zach, astrologers as Andalò di Negro and Tomaso Oderico, artists as Giovanni Pisano, didactic poets as Agostino Lomellini and Giambattista Ricchieri, amateur astronomers as Francesco Gianni and Glauco de Mottoni. Since the beginning of this research, the environment of Paris Maria Salvago appeared of great interest. He was a Genoese nobleman who has published useful astronomical observations, despite his roles of government in a time of serious trials for the Republic of Genoa; among his correspondents, there were Gio. Domenico Cassini, Francesco Bianchini and Eustachio Manfredi.
This hypertext is born as a private notebook, but it is turning into a collective work. The frame is, by choice, in Italian; sources are transcribed in the original language, someone is translated in Italian. Red memos, ??? sequences, gaps perhaps misleading are still present here and there. The editor hopes in well disposed scholars for reporting the most bothersome limits.
