Giuseppe Biancani

Giuseppe Biancani, SJ (; 8 March 1566 – 7 June 1624) was an Italian Jesuit astronomer, mathematician, and selenographer, after whom the crater Blancanus on the Moon is named. Biancani was one of the most able and respected Catholic astronomers of his day, and his main work, ''Sphaera Mundi'', was republished at least four times in the seventeenth century, 1620, 1630, 1635, and 1653. Provided by Wikipedia