The Museo Marsiliano is dedicated to Ferdinando Marsili who was a scientist, traveller and a mercenary. He had fought against the Turks in the army of Emperor Leopold I helping them to victory not only as a soldier but also as an engineer. It was later in France that he undertook oceanographic studies. He also fought in two more wars as he travelled selling his fighting services, although he did not neglect his scientific studies. Some of his best-known works are ‘Observations around the Thracian Bosphorus’ and ‘The True Canal of Constantinople’.
