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Erasmus Reinhold (22 October 1511 – 19 February 1553) was a German astronomer and mathematician, considered to be the most influential astronomical pedagogue of his generation. [2] He was born and died in Saalfeld, Saxony . He was educated, under Jacob Milich, at the University of Wittenberg, where he was first elected dean and later became ...
Oct 22, 2021 · Erasmus Reinhold, a German astronomer, was born Oct. 22, 1511. He was 6 years old when Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses to the door of Wittenberg Cathedral, a year older when Philip Melanchthon became professor at Wittenberg and the university transformed itself into a bastion of Lutheranism, and probably about 15 when he himself enrolled at Wittenberg, some 125 miles north of his hometown ...
Erasmus Reinhold. 1511-1553. German astronomer and mathematician who calculated the Tabulae Prutenicae (1551)—the first practical set of planetary tables based on Nicolaus Copernicus's theory. More accurate than the Alfonsine Tables, Reinhold's tables were widely adopted and provided a strong argument in favor of Copernicanism.
German astronomer and mathematician (1511–1553) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Erasmus Reinhold (22 October 1511 – 19 February 1553) was a German astronomer and mathematician, considered to be the most influential astronomical pedagogue of his generation. He was born and died in Saalfeld, Saxony.
Erasmus Reinhold's father was Johann Reinhold (1479-1558), a tax collector and also the secretary of the last abbot of the Benedictine monastery at Saalfeld. Little is known about Erasmus's youth and early education. He had a brother, named Johann like their father, who became Professor of Mathematics at Greifswald in 1549.
REINHOLD, ERASMUS. ( b. Saalfeld, Germany, 22 October 1511; d. Saalfeld, 19 February 1553) astronomy. Reinhold was, after Copernicus, the leading mathematical astronomer of the sixteenth century; and in computational ability he surpassed Copernicus himself. Nothing is known of his childhood: his father, Johann, was for a long time secretary to ...
Aug 1, 2013 · Gingerich, Owen , “Reinhold, Erasmus”, Dictionary of scientific biography, xi (1975), 365 – 7. Gingerich cites some other editions that we have not been able to check. The 1549 and 1560 editions are freely accessible on the web thanks to the Bibliotheksverbund Bayern.
