Francesco Comelli (1744 in Parigi – 1816 in Bologna)Miniati, Mara, ed. Museo di storia della scienza: catalogo. Taylor & Francis, 1991. p210 was an Italian scientific instrument maker with considerable expertise in foundry and metalworking.
Comelli was a skilled craftsman who made machines, instruments, and clocks, and an innovator in the design of metal presses. In 1780 he was appointed "regulator" of the public clock in Bologna.Museo Galileo. "Francesco Comelli". Catalogue of the Museo Galileo's Instruments on Display. catalogue.museogalileo.it A device designed by Comelli was used by Gianbattista Guglielmini in experiments to measure the rotation of the earth in 1791. Florence's Museo Galileo holds a specimen of an alidade for a clockmaker's lathe, made by Comelli.
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