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