page_title: Domenico Troili
hierarchical_section_title: Domenico Troili
caption_attribution_description: Leonid Meteor Storm, as seen over North America on the night of November 12-13, 1833.
context_page_description: Domenico Troili was an Italian abbate and a Jesuit, who held the appointment of custodian of the library of the ruling family of Este in Modena. He is recognized as the first person who documented the fall of a meteorite, in 1766.
  Troili was a pupil of Roger Joseph Boscovich at the Collegio Romano, and supported his master's atomic theory explaining the properties of matter.
context_section_description: Domenico Troili (1722–1792) was an Italian abbate and a Jesuit, who held the appointment of custodian of the library of the ruling family of Este in Modena. He is recognized as the first person who documented the fall of a meteorite, in 1766.
  Troili was a pupil of Roger Joseph Boscovich at the Collegio Romano, and supported his master's atomic theory explaining the properties of matter.
caption: An illustration (1833) of the Victorian vision of a meteorite storm
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