Mathematician:Erasmus Reinhold

Mathematician

German astronomer and mathematician, considered to be the most influential astronomical pedagogue of his generation.

Nationality

German

History

• Born: 22 October 1511 in Saalfeld, Thuringia, Electorate of Saxony (now Germany)
• Died: 19 February 1553 in Saalfeld, Thuringia, Electorate of Saxony (now Germany)

Publications

• 1542: Commentary on Georg von Peuerbach's Theoricae novae planetarum
• 1549: Ptolomaei Mathematicae constructionis liber primus (the first book of Claudius Ptolemy's Almagest in Greek with a Latin translation)
• 1551: Prutenicae Tabulae Coelestium Motuum (the first tables of planetary motion based on Nicolaus Copernicus's heliocentric model

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Erasmus Reinhold": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive

• 1998: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Reinhold, Erasmus (1511-53)
• 2008: David Nelson: The Penguin Dictionary of Mathematics (4th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Reinhold, Erasmus (1511-53)