Giuseppe Rosati

Giuseppe Rosati (Foggia, 21 September 1752; Foggia, 1 September 1814) was an Italian physician, agronomist, philosopher and mathematician. He was born in Foggia from Raffaele Rosati and Marianna Giannone. He attended the University of Medicine in Naples and, at the same time, he studied in deep philosophy, agronomy and mathematics. In Naples he started writing lots of works about agronomy, medicine, geography and mathematics. When he came back to Foggia he devoted himself to the teaching for youngs and he became the "doctor of the poors".

Main works

• La geografia moderna, teoretica, istorica e pratica, Napoli, Raimondi, 1785
• Gli elementi dell’agrimensura teoretica e pratica, Napoli, Raimondi, 1787
• Discorso sull’agricoltura di Puglia 1792
• Elementi dell’aritmetica, Napoli, 1796
• Il metodo millenario, Foggia, 1803
• Elementi per l’edificazione, con 11 tavole, Napoli, Coda, 1805
• Le industrie di Puglia, con una carta geografica incisa dall’autore, Foggia, Variento, 1808
• Breviario dell’Historia sacra, Foggia, Russo, 1815
• Saggio storico sulla medicina, Foggia, Russo, 1826
• Geometria pratica. La piana, Napoli, Caggiano & C., 1832–33