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Nicolaus Reimers Baer (2 February 1551 – 16 October 1600), also Reimarus Ursus, Nicolaus Reimers Bär or Nicolaus Reymers Baer, was an astronomer and imperial mathematician to Emperor Rudolf II. Due to his family's background, he was also known as Bär, Latinized to Ursus ("bear"). Reimers was born in Hennstedt and received hardly any ...
Nicolaus Reimers Baer (2 February 1551 – 16 October 1600), also Reimarus Ursus, Nicolaus Reimers Bär or Nicolaus Reymers Baer, was an astronomer and imperial mathematician to Emperor Rudolf II. Due to his family's background, he was also known as Bär, Latinized to Ursus ("bear"). Reimers was born in Hennstedt and received hardly any ...
Author (s): Frank J. Swetz (The Pennsylvania State University) Nicolaus Reimers (1551–1600) was a German astronomer and Imperial Mathematician for Emperor Rudolf II. He is noted for translating Copernicus’s De Revolutionibus into German and for feuding with Tycho Brahe. Note the difficulty in arriving at the title of his 1601 book ...
Leaving some better-known events such as his bitter dispute with Nicolaus Reimers “Ursus” to other historians, Christianson turns to topics that affirm his familiar account of Tycho as a fair manager and faithful mentor to many.
Oct 16, 2023 · Like just about every other scientist in this period, Tycho got into a heated dispute with a fellow thinker over who had thought of what first. In Tycho's case, his enemy was the German astronomer Nicolaus Reimers Bär (1551-1600), also known as Ursus (the Bear). Tycho accused Ursus of copying his theory of the cosmos, done when he visited ...
Feb 10, 2009 · Nicolaus Reimers Baer ("Ursus") (1551-1600) Ursus incited a bitter controversy in 1588, when he published a geocentric model of the solar system (pictured) that looked quite similar to Tycho Brahe 's.
Nicolaus Reimers’ 1588 geo-heliocentric planetary model. From Fundamentum Astronomicum (1588). Wikimedia Commons. While under normal circumstances this would appear to be an incredible breakthrough for Kepler in the scientific community, he had unwittingly attached himself to a work of plagiarism.
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