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Georg von Peuerbach (also Purbach, Peurbach; Latin: Purbachius; 30 May 1423 – 8 April 1461 [1]) was an Austrian astronomer, poet, mathematician and instrument maker, best known for his streamlined presentation of Ptolemaic astronomy in the Theoricae Novae Planetarum.
After observing an occultation of Jupiter by the Moon in 1451, Peurbach spent the last decade of his life making observing instruments, lecturing on astronomy and the classics, collaborating with men such as Johann Müller (Regiomontanus) on astronomical observing and theory, and serving as imperial astrologer to the king of Hungary. Peurbach ...
Peuerbach’s student and colleague Johannes Müller von Königsberg (commonly known by his Latin name of Regiomontanus) collaborated on these and other projects, noting discrepancies between observations and predictions and recording observations of lunar eclipses and two comets (including Halley’s Comet in 1456).
28 paź 2022 · In 1450, while teaching at the University of Vienna, Peurbach met Johann Müller of Königsber, or Regiomontanus (1436–1476), who was one of his pupils. Within just a few years, the two formed a tight astronomical collaboration.
Georg von Purbach He used Arabic numerals to prepare a table of sines of unprecedented accuracy, advancing the mechanics of trigonometry past the Greek and the Arabic marks. Johann Muller
Rome, 6 July 1476. Having received a classical education at Leipzig, be placed himself under Purbachius (Georg von Purbach), the professor of mathematics at Vienna, and under him became one of the first astronomers of that age.
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