The great Croatian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, geodesist, poet, philosopher, engineer and diplomat, Josip Rudjer Boskovic is one of the most important scientists of his time. He was born in Dubrovnik on 18 May 1711 where he finished elementary school in Jesuit College. It was with easy that he passed his school curriculum and, in particular, he stood out in hard work and intuition. When he was 15, he went to Rome to continue his education at the famous Jesuit Collegium Romanum (Roman College). After finishing his study of philosophy and theology, he took holy orders for priest and entered into the Jesuit order.
In 1736 he began to publish his Dissertations in math, physics, astronomy and geodesy and in 1763 his work of exceptional value,
Theoria Philosohiae Naturalis, was printed. During his life he wrote more than 75 capital works in math, mechanics, astronomy, optics, philosophy and literature. His discussions were notable not only for scientific news but also for Latin language. Rudjer Boskovic worked in various European scientific research centers and was a member of many academies of science. He died in Milan on 13 February and was buried at the St.Maria Podone church.
