Jacopo Bartolomeo Beccari Explained

Honorific Prefix:	Doctor of Medicine
Jacopo Bartolomeo Beccari
Resting Place:	Madonna del Baraccano, Bologna
Birth Date:	25 July 1682
Birth Place:	Bologna, Papal States
Death Place:	Bologna, Papal States
Nationality:	Bolognese
Known For:	Discovery of gluten in wheat flour
Parents:	Romeo Beccari and Flaminia Vittoria Beccari (née Maccarini)
Alma Mater:	University of Bologna
Workplaces:	University of Bologna

Jacopo Bartolomeo Beccari (25 July 1682 – 18 January 1766) was an Italian chemist, one of the leading scientists in Bologna in the first half of the eighteenth century. He is mainly known as the discoverer of the gluten in wheat flour.

Life

Jacopo Bartolomeo Beccari was born in Bologna on 25 July 1682.In 1737 he was the first to give courses in chemistry at an Italian university. He carried out important research on the phosphorescence of bodies, and studied the measurement of the intensity of the light emitted^[1] (De rebus aliisque adamant in phosphorum numerum referendis, 1745). He also studied the action of light on silver salts (De vi, quam ipsa per se lux habet, non colores modo, sed etiam texturam rerum, salvis interdum coloribus, immutandi, 1757).From his comments on foraminifera he is considered as one of the pioneers of microbiology.

Working at the Academy of Sciences of Bologna Institute, Beccari looked for ways to make populations resistant to famine through a new type of emergency diet.

Beccari died in Bologna on 18 January 1766.

Works

De Bononiensi arena quadam, in De Bononiensi scientiarum et artium Instituto atque Academia Commentarii, 1731, T. I, pp. 62-70;
De Lapide Bononiensi, ibid., T. I., pp. 181-205;
De motu intestino corporum fluidorum, ibid., T. I, pp. 483-496;
Lettera al Cav. Tommaso Derham intorno la meteora chiamata "foco fatuo", in Saggio delle transazioni filosofiche della Società Regia dall'anno 1720 fino a tutto l'anno 1730, tradotta da T. Derham, Napoli 1734;
Parere intorno al taglio della macchia di Viareggio, Lucca 1739;
De juribus variis, in De Bononiensi scientiarum et artium Instituto atque Academia Commentarii, 1745, T. II, pp. 95-108;
De corporum dissolutionibus, ibid., T. II, pp. 112-117;
De frumento. De Bononiensi scientiarum et artium instituto atque academia commentarii. Tomi secundi, Pars prima, 1745, pp. 122-127,
De morbis quibusdam popularibus, ibid., T. II, pp. 219 s.;
De longa cibi potusque omnis abstinentia, ibid., T. II, pp. 221-235;
De luce dactylorum, ibid, T. II, pp. 248-273;
De adamante aliisque rebus in phosphororum numerum referendis, ibid., T. II, pp. 274-303;
De quamplurimis phosphoris nunc primum detectis commentarius, in De Bononiensi scientiarum et artium Instituto atque Academia Commentarii, 1747, T. II, pp. 136-179;
De Bononiensi constitutione hyemali anni 1729/30 in Acta physico-medica Academiae Naturae Curiosorum, 1752, T. III, pp. 142-152;
De qualitatibus quibusdam, quae phosphororum luci obstant, in De Bononiensi scientiarum et artium Instituto atque Academia Commentarii, 1755, T. III, pp. 105-113;
De medicatis recobarii aquis, ibid., T- III, pp. 374-405;
De vi, quam ipsa per se lux habet, non colores modo, sed etiam texturam rerum, salvis interdum coloribus, immutandi, in De Bononiensi scientiarum et artium Instituto atque Academia Commentarii, 1757, T. IV, pp. 74-87;
De lacte, ibid., 1767, T. V, pp. 1-56;
Consulta medica, Tipografia San Tommaso D'Aquino, Bologna 1777-1781, 3 voll.

References

CitationsSources

Book: Scarselli, Flaminio. della Volpe. 1766. Nelle solenni esequie del celebre filosofo e medico bolognese Giacomo Bartolomeo Beccari orazione. Bologna.
Web site: . Storia Accademia delle Scienze dell'istituto di Bologna. Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali. 15 January 2013. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20070915050733/http://www.istituticulturali.it/genera.jsp?id=422. 15 September 2007.
Dario Camuffo. Antonio della Valle. Chiara Bertolin. Elena Santorelli. 2017. 10.1007/s10584-017-1931-2. 0165-0009. en. Climatic Change. 7–22. Temperature observations in Bologna, Italy, from 1715 to 1815: a comparison with other contemporary series and an overview of three centuries of changing climate. 142. 1–2 . 157885502 .
Dario Camuffo. Francesca Becherini. Antonio della Valle. 2019. 10.1007/s10584-019-02482-x. 0165-0009. en. Climatic Change. The Beccari series of precipitation in Bologna, Italy, from 1723 to 1765. 155. 3 . 359–376. 198648131 .

Notes and References

Book: Beccari. Bartolomeo. De quamplurimis phosphoris nunc primum detectis commentarius. 1744. Ex typographia Laelii a Vulpe. Bologna, Italy.