Giovanni Battista Riccioli, SJ (17 April 1598 – 25 June 1671) was an Italian astronomer and a Catholic priest in the Jesuit order. He is known, among other...

Look up riccioli (disambiguation) in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Giovanni Battista Riccioli (1598 – 1671) was an Italian astronomer. Riccioli could...

the feature Mare Adriaticum ("The Adriatic Sea") in his 1647 map. Giovanni Riccioli called it Sinus Aestuum ("Bay of Hot Days") in his 1651 map. The Surveyor...

Like most of the other maria on the Moon, Mare Nubium was named by Giovanni Riccioli, whose 1651 nomenclature system has become standardized. Previously...

Like most of the other maria on the Moon, Mare Imbrium was named by Giovanni Riccioli, whose 1651 nomenclature system has become standardized. The earliest...

ridges and floods some of the rilles. The crater is named after Giovanni Battista Riccioli, an Italian Jesuit astronomer who introduced the system of lunar...

was named after a Flemish astronomer Godefroy Wendelin in 1651 by Giovanni Riccioli. In 1935 this name was approved by International Astronomical Union...

Like most of the other maria on the Moon, Mare Crisium was named by Giovanni Riccioli, whose 1651 nomenclature system has become standardized. By the 17th...

and astronomer. The lunar crater Bettinus was named after him by Giovanni Riccioli in 1651. Mario Bettinus studied mathematics under the Belgian Jean...

near side, it was given its name by Giovanni Riccioli, whose 1651 nomenclature system has become standardized. Riccioli awarded Copernicus a prominent crater...