Regiomontanus biography sample

          The th anniversary of Regiomontanus's birth has occasioned this depiction of his life and work....

          Regiomontanus: His Life and.

        1. Born in CE at Unfinden, in what is today Germany, Regiomontanus seems to have shown signs of early genius.
        2. The th anniversary of Regiomontanus's birth has occasioned this depiction of his life and work.
        3. This helps to explain why the Almagest became the definitive authority for mathematical astronomy for many centuries after its writing in the.
        4. He has long been interested in the observational history of the Moon and planets, and problems of visual astronomy.

          5. Regiomontanus

          German mathematician and astronomer (–)

          For the lunar crater, see Regiomontanus (crater).

          Johannes Müller von Königsberg (6 June – 6 July [1]), better known as Regiomontanus (), was a mathematician, astrologer and astronomer of the German Renaissance, active in Vienna, Buda and Nuremberg.

          His contributions were instrumental in the development of Copernican heliocentrism in the decades following his death.

          Regiomontanus wrote under the Latinized name of Ioannes de Monteregio (or Monte Regio; Regio Monte); the toponym Regiomontanus was first used by Philipp Melanchthon in He is named after Königsberg in Lower Franconia, not the larger Königsberg (modern Kaliningrad) in Prussia.

          Life

          Although little is known of Regiomontanus' early life, it is believed that at eleven years of age, he became a student at the University of Leipzig, Saxony. In he continued his studies at Alma Mater Rudolfina, the university in Vienna, in the Duchy of Austr