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Jacopo Francesco, Count Riccati, born at Venice on May 28, 1676, and died at Trèves on April 15, 1754, did a great deal to disseminate a knowledge of the Newtonian philosophy in Italy. Besides the equation known by his name, certain cases of which he succeeded in integrating, he discussed the question of the possibility of lowering the order of a given differential equation. His works were published at Trèves in four volumes in 1758. He had two sons who wrote on several minor points connected with the integral calculus and differential equations: these were Vincenzo, who was born in 1707 and died in 1775, and Giordano, who was born in 1709 and died in 1790.
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