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From 1829 to 1859, Antinori was director of the Regal Museum of Physics and Natural History in Florence where he worked with Leopoldo Nobili on electromagnetic induction. He had originally attracted Nobili to Florence to teach physics, as he had Giovanni Battista Amici to teach astronomy.

He was one of the promoters of the Congress of Italian Scientists in Pisa in 1839 and in Florence in 1841 and was responsible for bringing permanance, order and security to the Italian legacy of meteorlogical dataA datum is a statement accepted at face value (a "given"). Data is the plural of datum''. A large class of practically important statements are measurements or observations of a variable. Such statements may comprise numbers, words, or images. Etymology T by founding the Italian Meteorlogical Archive .

Antinori was a member of the Accademia della CruscaAccademia della Crusca is an Italian cultural association born in Florence in 1583. It published the first Italian dictionary in 1612. External link (in Italian) Language regulators. and wrote many entries for the Crusca dictionary on scientific topics. He had a particular interest in preserving and interpreting documents and artefacts from the work of Galileo GalileiGalileo Galilei ( Pisa, February 15, 1564 Arcetri, January 8, 1642), was a Tuscan astronomer, philosopher, and physicist who is closely associated with the scientific revolution. His great achievements include perfecting the telescope, a variety of astron and his followers.