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Michael Maestlin (also Mästlin, Möstlin, or Moestlin) (30 September 1550 – 26 October 1631) was a German astronomer and mathematician, known for being the mentor of Johannes Kepler. He was a student of Philipp Apian and was known as the teacher who most influenced Kepler.
education at Tubingen, Kepler encountered Michael Maestlin, the professor of astronomy with whom he first studied Copernicanism. This introduction to the possibility of a heliocentric astronomy complemented Kepler’s belief that the sun was the only possible source of the
On Maestlin's cross-disciplinary cautiousness, see Westman R. S., “Three responses to the Copernican theory: Johannes Praetorius, Tycho Brahe and Michael Maestlin”, in The Copernican achievement (ref. 12), 329–37.
- Robert S. Westman
- 1980
Sep 30, 2011 · Michael Mästlin was a German astronomer who was Kepler's teacher and who publicised the Copernican system. View three larger pictures. Biography. Michael Mästlin was born in Göppingen which was a village about 50 km east of Tübingen.
Feb 1, 2012 · Maestlin prepared the publication of a revised version of the Rheticus tables. Maestlin passed his Master's examination on 1 August 1571, while he edited the third edition of Erasmus Reinhold, Prutenicae tabulae coelestium motuum (1571) at Gruppenbach's in Tübingen.
- Gerd Grasshoff
- 2012
Feb 1, 2007 · Maestlin's Copernicanism in 1572 was suggested by Robert S. Westman in his article “Michael Mästlin's adoption of the Copernican theory” (ref. 23), 61, mostly through evaluation of Maestlin's annotations to Copernicus's book.
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Michael Mästlin was Kepler’s mathematics professor at Tübingen and subsequently became a lifelong friend and correspondent.
