Mathematician:Erasmus Reinhold
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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)