Boscovich, Roger Joseph, an Italian mathematician and astronomer, born at Ragusa; entered the Order of the Jesuits; was professor in Pavia, and afterwards at Milan; discovered the equator of the sun and the period of its rotation; advocated the molecular theory of physics, with which his name is associated; died insane (1701‒1787).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Boscawen, Edward * Bosio, Baron