Candido del Buono

Candido del Buono (22 July 1618, Florence – 19 September 1676, Campoli[1]) was an Italian scientific instrument maker.

Candido del Buono, a Florentine priest, attended Famiano Michelini's (1604–1665) mathematics lectures with his brother Paolo Del Buono (1625-1659). Del Buono was the Chamberlain of the Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova in Florence and a member of the Accademia del Cimento, where he presented several instruments of his invention.[2] He invented an aerometer and constructed a device to measure the density of vapor.[1] There is no clear documentary evidence of whether he or his other brother Anton Maria Del Buono was the inventor of the arcicanna, a complex system that solved some typical problems of large telescopes in the second half of the 17th century.[3]

References
  1. "Christiaan Huygens, Oeuvres complètes. Tome III. Correspondance 1660-1661". Digital Library for Dutch Literature. (in French)
  2. Bedini, Silvio A. Patrons, Artisans, and Instruments of Science, 1600–1750. Vol. 635. Variorum, 1999. pp. 42–44.
  3. Monaco, Giuseppe (1998). "Strumentaria Alcune Considerazioni sul Maximus Tubus di Hevelius". Nuncius. 13 (2): 533–550.
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