BIANCHINI, FRANCESCO (1662-1729), Italian astrono mer and antiquary, was born of a noble family at Verona. A paper by him on G. D. Cassini's new method of parallaxes was inserted in the Acta Eruditorum of Leipzig in 1685. He published separately : Istoria Universale (1697), only one volume of which appeared ; De Calendario et Cyclo Caesaris (1703 ; Hesperi et Phosphori nova Phaenomena (1729), in which he asserted Venus to rotate in 24* days; and (posthumously) Astronomicae et Geographicae Observationes Selectae (173 7) and Opuscula Varia See Fontenelle, "Eloge," Memoires de l'Acad. de l'Histoire, p. 502 (5729) ; Mazzoleni, Vita di Francesco Bianchini (Verona, 1735).