Cellio was professor of astronomy at the Physico-Mathematical Academy of Rome.

Biographical references: ABI: I 282, 146. • Dizionario Biografico Italiani [not listed]. • Jöcher, Gelehrten-Lexikon, Supplement. • LKG: 283. • Nouvelle Biographie Générale (Hoefer). • Poggendorff: 1, cols. 409-10. • WBI.

1. Italian, 1680.
Il Fosforo | O' Vero La | Pietra Bolognese | Preparata per rilucere frà | l'ombre. | Fatica Di | Marc' Antonio Cellio | Dell'Accademia Fisicomatte- | matica di Roma, | E dal medemo consecrata | All'Eccellentissimo Prencipe | Signor D. | Marc' Antonio | Borghese. | [ornament] | In Roma, Per il Vannacci. 1680. | [rule] | Con Licenza de'Superiori.

12°: A-D¹² E³; 51l.; [1]-102 p. Ornamental initials.

Very rare. The first work written in Italian on the phosphorescent barite found near Bologna and then called the `Bolognian stone'. Here, Cellio describes the location where the Bolognian stone could be found, chiefly on Monte Paterno, indicating that a typical size is that of an orange. He notes that the color varies, but he says the white ones are the most phosphorescence sensitive.

Bibliographical references: BL [1036.a.27.]. • Gatterer, Mineralogischen Literatur, 1798-9: 2, 13. • Harvey, History of Luminescence, 1957: p. 315. • Hoover Collection: no. 209. • LKG: XVI 113. • NUC [no copy listed]. • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London: 2 (1681), 515 [review & abstract].