Regiomontanus
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Johannes Müller von Königsberg, better known as Regiomontanus, was a mathematician, astrologer and astronomer of the German Renaissance, active in Vienna, Buda and Nuremberg. His contributions were in
18th-century portrait (Iohannes de Regio Monte dictus alias Müllerus)
Plaque at Regiomontanus' birthplace
Regiomontanus
Comet of 1472
Georg von Peuerbach
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Georg von Peuerbach was an Austrian astronomer, poet, mathematician and instrument maker, best known for his streamlined presentation of Ptolemaic astronomy in the Theoricae Novae Planetarum. Peuerbac
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…In 1451 he continued his studies at Alma Mater Rudolfina, the university in Vienna, in the Duchy of Austria, where he became a pupil and friend of Georg von Peuerbach. In 1452 he was awarded his bachelor's degree (baccalaureus), and he was awarded his master's degree (magister artium) at the age of 21 in 1457. He…
Page from Peurbach's sine table
The Georg von Peuerbach Gymnasium built in 1971 in Upper Austria
Theoricae novae planetarum, 1534