61. Nürnberger Mondkrater Translate this page Leipzig ein. 1450 wechselte er nach Wien, wo er in engen Kontakt zudem Mathematiker georg peurbach (1423-1461) stand. peurbach hatte http://www.naa.net/astrokreis/projekte/nbgmond/regiomontanus.htm

Regiomontanus (1436-1476) Almagest Literatur: Mett, Rudolf: Regiomontanus – Wegbereiter des neuen Weltbildes. Stuttgart, Leipzig: Teubner 1996 Links: www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Regiomontanus.html www.regiomontanus.de/regiomontanus-dateien/astronomie/astro_index.html Text und Bild von Hans Gaab

62. Publications Page Marol, Francesco; Mengoli, Pietro; Mohr, georg; Mydorge, Claude; Neile, William;Pacioli Paciuolo, Luca Lucus; peurbach, george georg; Roberval, Gilles http://www.angelfire.com/jazz/onslow/writing/pubs.html

var cm_role = "live" var cm_host = "angelfire.lycos.com" var cm_taxid = "/memberembedded" H O M E P A G E T E A C H I N G W R I T I N G R A D I O ... M I S C . Last updated July 2003 by david.tulloch @paradise.net.nz P U B L I C A T I O N S Magazine Articles 'Spinning Web Tales', North and South , December 2001. 'Weird, Wild, Wacky', North and South , October 2001, p.29. 'Web Pets', North and South , August 2001, p.28. 'List Lurkers', North and South , April 2001, p.29 'Web Radio', North and South , March 2001, p.25 'Unreal Estate', North and South , October, 2000, p.35 Fiction NZ Listener , November 1-7, 2003, p.35. This was a competition winning essay in their "The Greatest Dinner Party Ever Competition". 'Just the Bright Stars', in Coastlines, prose and poetry from Wellington to Foxton , Selected by Dame Kate Harcourt, Greater Otaki Library Trust, December, 2001. Textbook Essays 'The Video recorder', and 'Fractal Theory and Benoit Mandelbrot', in Science and Its Times 1950-1999: Understanding the Social Significance of Scientific Discovery , Vol. 7, Gale Group Publishers, Farmington Hills, Michigan, 2000.

63. Sviluppi In Occidente. georg peurbach (1423-1461) calcolauna tavola di seni di in , mentre JOHANN MÜLLER (1436-1476), detto http://www2.math.unifi.it/~archimede/archimede/trigonometria/trigonometria/trigo

Il giardino di Archimede Un museo per la matematica Breve storia della trigonometria Sviluppi in occidente. EORG P EURBACH (1423-1461) calcola una tavola di seni di in , mentre J OHANN M (1436-1476), detto R EGIOMONTANO ma dalla grandezza del raggio del cerchio goniometrico. Ad esempio, se si prendeva il raggio, detto anche seno toto , la tavola riportava i valori di in numeri interi, che potevano andare da a , corrispondenti a quattro cifre decimali. Nelle sue tavole, P EURBACH aveva preso il raggio , mentre R EGIOMONTANO usa dapprima , e poi De triangulis omnimodis del R EGIOMONTANO C OPERNICO De revolutionibus orbium caelestium , che vide la luce, edita da G. J. R ETICO (1514-1577) lo stesso anno della sua morte. Lo stesso R ETICO e per un raggio di , che vennero stampate postume nel 1596, col titolo Opus palatinum de triangulis . Tra l'altro, nell'opera del R ETICO appare per la prima volta la costruzione delle tavole a partire dalla formula (1540-1603) e pubblicate per la prima volta dal suo discepolo A. A NDERSON in cui, a causa della relazione

64. Lecture 7 georg peurbach (14261461) initiated the challenging task of translatingthe Almagest directly from Greek into Latin. After peurbach s http://e3.uci.edu/clients/bjbecker/RevoltingIdeas/lecture7.html

HISTORY 60 Revolting Ideas An Introduction to the History of Science FALL QUARTER, 2003 Department of History University of California, Irvine Instructor: Dr. Barbara J. Becker Lecture 7. Re-examination of Standard Texts (continued) Georg Peurbach (1426-1461) initiated the challenging task of translating the Almagest Epitome of Ptolemy Frontispiece from The Epitome of Ptolemy (1496) shows Ptolemy (left) reading from the Almagest while Regiomontanus listens attentively (right) and points to the well-ordered celestial scheme that Ptolemy's great work describes. Gerard of Cremona's Latin translation of Almagest appeared in print in 1518. The first edition of Almagest in the original Greek was published in 1538. Celestial Motions to be Explained daily motion of fixed stars (from east to west) superimposed eastward motion of sun, moon, and planets against background of fixed stars Closer observation reveals variations on basic motions: heavenly bodies (most notably the sun) periodically appear to speed up and slow down planets occasionally appear to reverse their normal course [ retrograde motion Direct motion of Jupiter in its orbit is interrupted by retrograde motion from January 22 to May 28 points where celestial equator and ecliptic intersect appear to drift slowly westward [ precession of the equinoxes Standard Greek Account According to Aristotle: All celestial bodies, by their nature, move in perfect circles at constant speeds.

65. O Observat\'orio -- {\large\bf Crep\'usculos E Outras Quest\~oes Astron\'omicas Translate this page De entre estes trabalhos merece especial referência o seu extenso comentárioàs Theoricae novae planetarum de georg peurbach, que os historiadores http://www.oal.ul.pt/oobservatorio/vol8/n8/vol8n8_2.html

Go backward to EDITORIAL Go up to Top Go forward to De crepusculis liber unus O De crepusculis De crepusculis De crepusculis De crepusculis Opera Theoricae novae planetarum Opera De revolutionibus De crepusculis

66. December Centre Meeting century astronomers. georg peurbach, an Austrian scholar, publisheda book called New Theories of the Planets in 1454. Johann Muller http://ottawa.rasc.ca/observers/2000/an0001pa.html

December Centre Meeting Gary Boyle , the Observers Group Chair, opened the last meeting of the Ottawa Centre of the 1900s with the comment, "Well, folks, they lost another one!" He was referring, of course, to the sad loss of NASA’s Mars Polar Lander probe . During the time of the meeting, hope was still alive that contact would eventually be made, but alas, ’twas not to be. Moving on to exciting news, Gary also spoke of how astronomers gathered more evidence of extra-solar planets by measuring a 1.7% drop in a star’s light as a suspected planet moved in front of it relative to Earth. It seems that the Galaxy is indeed teeming with planets. What a fitting end to the 1900s! Paul Comision was our usual first speaker of the month to present his latest Cutting Edge of Astronomy topic. Paul discussed the "bottom-up" theories about how galaxies are formed through collisions and mergers of smaller galaxies (much like how pile-ups are formed on Ottawa highways during freezing rain), as opposed to the older "top-down" theories where a galaxy is born a specific size and stays that way throughout its life, and how the bottom-up theories were gaining prominence. The December 1999 issue of Astronomy magazine covered this topic in detail.

67. Department Of Chinese of Venus and Mercury in Western Astronomy among Chinese Scholars during the MingQingTransition With Special Reference to georg von peurbach s Writings, ? http://www.hku.hk/rss/rs2001/rpg_4100_gen.html

DEPARTMENT OF CHINESE Researcher : Chan MS List of Research Outputs Chan M.S. , A Note on J. Legge and his Yijing, In: NL Cheng ed., Translating Literary Text . Chinese Department, HKU, 2000, 247-266. Chan M.S. , On the Origin of "Ju Áü", Journal of Chinese Linguistics Chan M.S. , The Translations of E.J. Eitel, In: Chan Sin Wai ed., Translation in Hong Kong: Past, Present and Future . Hong Kong, CUHK Press, 2001, 1-8. Researcher : Chan YC Project Title: The impact of Chinese newspapers and magazines on the Chinese language proficiency of year one students in the Chinese Department of The University of Hong Kong Investigator(s): Dr. Chan Y.C. , Prof. Lee K.S., Dr. Tse Y.K. Source(s) of Funding: Hang Seng Bank Golden Jubilee Education Fund for Research Start Date: March 1998 Abstract: It is commonly accepted that the language deficiencies existing in Chinese magazines and newspapers have an adverse effect on the language proficiency of the general public. The first year students of the Department of Chinese, The University of Hong Kong, should in general have a good command in the Chinese language. This research targets on how and in what way, if any, the media has affected them with the aim to identify any remedies that may be required. Results obtained from this project could be beneficial to both our students and the paper media. With proper analysis, teaching approaches and methods could be more precisely designed. List of Research Outputs Chan Y.C.

68. Neue Seite 1 Translate this page Petzval, Joseph (1807 - 1891). peurbach, georg (30.5.1423 - 8.4.1461). Pfaff,Johann Friedrich (1765 - 1825). Phragmen, Lars Edvard (1863 - 1937). http://www.mathe-ecke.de/mathematiker.htm

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69. Free Ancient And Medieval History Of Almagest Greek And Byzantine Emperors In Ro georg peurbach and Johannes Regiomontanus, Epitome of the Almagest.The Epitome of the Almagest was written between 1460 and 1463 http://ancient-pictures-books-rome-greece-egypt-history.org/almagest/

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70. Informationen Ausstellung "... Und Sie Bewegt Sich Doch". Astronomie Im Alten Bu Translate this page Wien, mit der 1. und 2. Wiener Schule unter Johann von Gmunden (um 1380-1442) undspäter georg peurbach (1423-1461), entwickelte sich die Wissenschaft weiter. http://www.bibliothek.uni-augsburg.de/akt/ausstell/2000_astronomie/info_astronom

Informationen zur Ausstellung "... und sie bewegt sich doch" - Astronomie im alten Buch Markstein der Astronomie in der Antike war (um 100-170 n.Chr.). In seinem Almagest , der umfassendsten Zusammenfassung des damaligen Kenntnisstandes, schrieb er das sogenannte geozentrische Weltbild fest. primum mobile Selten hatte ein wissenschaftliches Werk so lange Bestand. 1400 Jahre blieben diese Erkenntnisse unwidersprochen. aus: Hartmann Schedel, Liber chronicarum, 1493 Allegorische Darstellung der Astronomie. Aus: Johannes von Sacrobosco, Sphaera mundi, 1488 Astronomie im Mittelalter Almagest Alfonsinischen Tafeln Johann von Gmunden Georg Peurbach Johannes Regiomontanus Der anatomische Mensch im Zodiakus. Miniatur aus dem Kalendarium der Heures des Duc du Berry, Johannes Regiomontanus Nikolaus Kopernikus Johannes Regiomontanus und Nikolaus Kopernikus Schon Johannes Regiomontanus Nikolaus Kopernikus Peter Apian Peter Apian Astronomicum Caesareum Kalenderscheibe aus dem Astronomicum Caesareum von Peter Apian, 1540 Riesenquadrant, den Tycho

71. Girolamo Bigazzini giovandosi allo scopo tra le altre delle opere di georg peurbach e Giovanni http://www.dipmat.unipg.it/~bartocci/BIGAZ.html

UN MATEMATICO PERUGINO DEL '5OO: GIROLAMO BIGAZZINI di Umberto Bartocci ed Emanuela Ughi Ricorreva qualche anno fa il quinto centenario della nascita di una singolare figura di scienziato rinascimentale, quel Girolamo Bigazzini che fu ai suoi tempi detto "Prencipe de' Mathematici" e "lume di tutta l'Italia nelle speculative Scientie Mathematiche". Anche se sulle date della vita del Bigazzini i testi non sono del tutto concordi(1), appare senz'altro certo che questi ebbe i suoi natali nella citta' di Perugia, sicche' e' parsa cosa opportuna ad alcuni cultori della storia delle matematiche operanti nella Universita' degli Studi di Perugia il ricordarlo con questo scritto. Si e' gia' citato un entusiastico giudizio di Raffaele Sozii (1529-1589), che del Bigazzini fu allievo e biografo (cfr. [4] e [5] ), sulle qualita' scientifiche e sulla notorieta' del nostro personaggio, nonostante che, come osserva anche l'Ermini nella sua monumentale opera dedicata alla storia di questo Ateneo (cfr. [3] , p. 586), si possa sospettare che dietro tali lusinghiere considerazioni si nasconda una certa dose di esagerazione, dovuta probabilmente all'affetto del discepolo per il maestro(2). Pure, della grande fama che il Bigazzini seppe procurarsi si puo' essere assolutamente certi, poiche' in termini altrettanto elogiativi si espressero anche altri suoi contemporanei, quali ad esempio il Pellini ( [14] , p. 983) ed il Crispolti ( [9] , p. 359). Interessatosi cosi' sempre di piu' il Bigazzini agli studi matematici, divenne rapidamente tanto perito in campo scientifico da svolgere successivamente egli stesso funzioni di maestro nell'ambiente perugino. A causa di cio' fu chiamato, sin dalla sua giovinezza, il "Vecchietto", poiche' per l'appunto(7) mostro' "senno canuto in fanciullesca etade", cosi' come riporta il Crispolti ( [9] , p. 359).

72. Science, Antiquariaat Forum A second edition, which is also very rare was published in 1541 addedwith a treatise by georg peurbach and the tables by Regiomontanus. http://www.forum-hes.nl/forum/main_stocklist.phtml/subject/7/8/Science.html

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73. History Eclipsed: The Day(s) The Sun Vanished Columbus didn t have supernatural powers, but may have based his predictions ona copy of the New Theory of Planets by georg peurbach, which Columbus is http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/astronomy/eclipse_history_810.html

SEARCH: Hubble Space Telescope advertisement More Stories Eclipse '99 space.com's coverage History Eclipsed: The Day(s) the Sun Vanished By Glen Golightly Houston Bureau Chief posted: 03:52 pm ET 10 August 1999 Go back and tell the king that at that hour I will smother the whole world in the dead blackness of midnight; I will blot out the sun, and he shall never shine again; the fruits of the earth shall rot for lack of light and warmth, and the peoples of the earth shall famish and die, to the last man! Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Twain's fictional Yankee predicting an eclipse to save himself from being burned at the stake may sound silly in the late 20 th century, but eclipses have a long history as omens or portents of evil. Even Christopher Columbus predicted a lunar eclipse on Feb 29, 1504 to get the inhabitants of Jamaica to cooperate with him during one of his visits to the New World. The islanders refused to supply him and his sailors with food, so Columbus recalled an upcoming lunar eclipse and told the natives he would make the moon change color and lose its light. The eclipse astonished the natives. Food and support was forthcoming. Columbus was even raised to a rank of a god.

74. LIBRARIES In Vienna, Bessarion had the opportunity to meet with important men of letters,such as georg peurbach, Niccolaus da Cusa and the young Regiomontanus, who http://www.libraries.gr/nonmembers/en/libraries_markiani.htm

LIBRARIES St. John the Theologian (Patmos) Marcian Beatus Rhenanus National of Austria ... Bodleian Marcian The Marcian library in Venice was based on the personal collection of manuscripts and printed books owned by the great Renaissance man of letters and leading representative of Byzantine scholarship, Cardinal Bessarion. When Bessarion became aware that the end of his life was approaching, he decided to donate his invaluable collection to the Venetian Republic, with the sole purpose of its serving as a symbol of the cultural heritage of western civilisation and a beacon of Hellenism. Cardinal Bessarion, whose secular name was Basil, was born in Trebizond on 2 January 1403 and received his initial education under Ignatios Chortasmenos, the metropolitan of Selymbria. He studied rhetoric in Constantinople at a time when the Italian humanists were frequent visitors to the Byzantine capital to study Greek and acquire Greek manuscripts. Within this circle, he studied alongside Francesco Filelfo, Giovanni Aurispa and many others, who later became outstanding figures of the Renaissance. He embraced monasticism at an early age, and was ordained monk in the order of St Basil (30 January 1423), taking the name Bessarion; he became a

75. Meyers Konversationslexikon, Band 13, Seite 0470, Von Purbach Bis Purim Translate this page Vgl. F Nève, Les Pourânas. Études sur les dernlers monu-ments de la llttératuresanscrlte (Par. 1852). Pnrbach (peurbach), georg,.. Mathematiker, geb. 3o. http://susi.e-technik.uni-ulm.de:8080/meyers/servlet/showSeite?ID=1068054006699&

76. History Of Mathematics: Web Resources Greek Astronomy Byzantine Astronomical Collection, Ptolemy, george Trebizond,Nasir adDin at-Tusi, georg peurbach and Johannes Regiomontanus. http://www.mat.ub.es/utilitats/linkshist.html

Per D.E. Joyce (djoyce@black.clarku.edu) Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Clark University. Resources that are availiable on internet come in several types. They are catagorized here as follows. History of mathematics pages on the web Multimedia exhibits Books on-line Articles on-line Biographies of mathematicians ... Other resources History of Mathematics pages on the web The Mathematical MacTutor History of Mathematics archive at the School of Mathematical and Compuational Sciences of the University of St Andrews . Includes more than 1000 biographies with major mathematicians listed alphabetically and chronologically , an index of topics , and a birthplace map David Wilkins's History of Mathematics pages. Includes excerpts from W. W. Rouse Ball's A Short Account of the History of Mathematics seventeenth and early eighteenth century mathematicians David E. Joyce's History of Mathematics pages Hypermedia Exhibits The Galileo Project IMSS, the Institute and Museum of the History of Science of Florence, Italy includes a multimedia catalogue of its Galileo room , a biography of Galileo , and short biographical texts of personalities in some way connected to the figure of Galileo. The

77. à Propos DeAstronomie de georg peurbach et les Disputationes contra Cremonensia de Regiomontanus. http://134.59.31.3/Astronomie.html

Astronomie Retour JOHANNES de SACRO BOSCO Sphaera mundi. G. Purbachius, Theoricae novae planetarum. Regiomontanus, Disputationes, contra Cremonensia.- [Venezia :] Erhard Ratdolt [ante 4 XI] 1485.- 4¡, 197 mm, 58 ff n. ch. sign. 1-68, 710 , ill. gr. s. b. Chapitre 23, p.128 : Astronomie Retour

78. Dekker in teaching. A pupil of von Gmunden, georg peurbach, is reported tohave made globes and many other instruments. peurbach who at http://www.coronelli.org/news/2002/dekker_e.html

The Globe between Fact and Fiction Elly Dekker 'We who have seen the whole earth, either as represented on maps and globes or as reproduced in satellite photographs, find it difficult to adopt the perspective of those who have not. The image of a floating blue and green sphere, with sharply defined oceans and continents, has been so thoroughly assimilated into our mind's eye as to become intuitive. However, the great majority of mankind has lived and died without ever glimpsing this image, and even today, many isolated races remain innocent of it. For such peoples, mind must take the place of maps in giving shape and structure to the inhabited earth; where empirical data give out they employ any other means available - theory, myth, and fantasy - to define and depict the space in which they dwell. [James S. Romme, The edges of the Earth in ancient thought , Princeton, 1992, p. 9] This concise summary of the ways in which people deal with images of the world could well serve as the basis of a manifesto of what - as seen from my own perspective - have been the goals of the Coronelli Society: to study, to unravel and to elucidate the diversity of images that people have formed of the world around them throughout the ages. All images of the world have been and still are being created within a specific scientific and social context. Before they can be understood these contexts have to be studied in terms of contemporary ideas and values. This in particular holds for models of the world such as globes and armillary spheres, which have been made since antiquity by a manifold of makers: scientists and artists, women and monks, teachers and school children.

79. Ptolemaic System Epitome in Ptolemaei Almagestum) was written between 1460 and 1463 by the Austrianastronomer georg peurbach and his famous pupil Johannes Regiomontanus at the http://www.sciencedaily.com/encyclopedia/ptolemaic_system

Match: sort by: relevance date Free Services Subscribe by email RSS newsfeeds PDA-friendly format loc="/images/" A A A Find Jobs In: Healthcare Engineering Accounting College Contract / Freelance Customer Service Diversity Engineering Executive Healthcare Hospitality Human Resources Information Tech International Manufacturing Nonprofit Retail All Jobs by Job Type All Jobs by Industry Relocating? Visit: Moving Resources Moving Companies Mortgage Information Mortgage Calculator Real Estate Lookup Front Page Today's Digest Week in Review Email Updates ... Outdoor Living Encyclopedia Main Page See live article Ptolemaic system The Ptolemaic system was a model to explain the motions of the heavens, espoused by Claudius Ptolemaeus in Almagest sometime around the 2nd century, C.E., and accepted for over a thousand years by the vast majority of people to be the correct cosmological model. It may be also called the geocentric model Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 The Almagest 2 Geocentricity 3 Problems with geocentricity 4 Replacement with Copernican system The Almagest An Epitome of the Almagest Epitome in Ptolemaei Almagestum ) was written between and by the Austrian astronomer Georg Peurbach and his famous pupil Johannes Regiomontanus at the suggestion of Cardinal Bessarion. It gave Europeans the first sophisticated understanding of Ptolemy's astronomy, and was studied by every competent astronomer of the

80. Timeline - Scientific Revolution: Chronological Timeline: Copernicus To Newton - 1462 One of the major publications of Renaissance natural philosophy, the Epitomeof Ptolemy s Almagest appears; the authors, georg peurbach (14231461) and http://web.clas.ufl.edu/users/rhatch/pages/03-Sci-Rev/SCI-REV-Home/05-sr-lng-tim

T H E S C I E N T I F I C R E V O L U T I O N Dr Robert A. Hatch - University of Florida Christopher Columbus (d.1506) is born as is Amerigo Vespucci (d. 1512), explorers. One of the major publications of Renaissance natural philosophy, the Epitome of Ptolemy's Almagest appears; the authors, Georg Peurbach (1423-1461) and Johannes Regiomontanus (1436-1476), symbolize a shift from reverence for Ptolemy and antiquity to respect coupled with confident innovation. Publication of the highly influential Corpus Hermeticum , a collection of writings (we now know) to have been written in the early Christian era but then thought to have been written with great authority by Hermes Trismegistus (perhaps Thoth or Moses) living c.1800 BC. Georg Peurbach's New Theory of the Planets (1454) sought to reconcile geometric descriptive models for predicting planetary motions by employing homocentric (nested concentric) celestial spheres. Nicolas Copernicus (1473-1543) born.

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