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Marin GETALDIĆ (lat. Marinus Ghetaldus, Getalda) physicist, mathematician, (Dubrovnik, 1568 – Dubrovnik, 1626). He gained primary education by the Franciscans. From 1595 to 1601 he lived in Germany, England, Belgium, Rome, Paris and Padua, where he came into contact with Galileo. Having fled from Rome, he returned to Dubrovnik where he held various government jobs. In particular he was interested in optical instruments.

WORKS: Al signor Michele Coignetto professore della mathematica, mio precettore colendissimo, Parisi, 1600; Nonnullae propositiones de parabola, Roma, 1603; Promotus Archimedes seu de variis corporum generibus gravitate et magnitudine comparatis, Roma, 1603; Variorum problematum collectio, Venetiis, 1607; Apollonius redivivus, seu restituta Apollonii Pergaei inclinationum geometria. Liber primus, Venetiis, 1607; Supplementum Apollonii Galli, seu exsuscitata Apollonii Pergaei tacitionum geometriae pars reliqua, Venetiis, 1607; Pismo Galileu Galileju, Dubrovnik, 20. veljače 1608; Pismo Christophu Claviusu, Dubrovnik, 20. svibnja 1608; Apollonius redivivus, seu restitutae Apollonii Pergaei de inclinatinibus geometriae. Liber secundus, Venetiis, 1613; Pismo Christophu Grienbergeru, Dubrovnik, 15. studenoga 1625; De resolutione et compositione mathematica libri quinque, Roma, 1630.

LITERATURE: Ž. Dadić, "O paraboličnim zrcalima Marina Getaldića", Anali 17 (1979), 119–124; Ž. Dadić, "Posljedica i porizam u Getaldićevim radovima", Anali 18 (1980), 175–180; Ž. Dadić, J. Balabanić, "Prva verzija Getaldićevih restauracija dvaju Apolonijevih problema dostavljena Galileju", Anali 19–20 (1982), 7–18; M. Borić, "Getaldić, Descartes i analitička geometrija", Prilozi za istraživanje hrvatske filozofske baštine 76 (2/20012), 167–196.