Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Nov 2000
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke3431.&link_type=abstract
"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3431. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies
Scientific paper
Cartographer, born in Leisnig, Saxony, became professor of mathematics at Ingolstadt, where he founded a press that published maps. He made astronomical instruments, including sundials, quadrants and armillary spheres, and other instruments that would solve spherical trigonometry. His world map is the oldest that uses the name America. His major work (1540), the Astronomicum Caesareum, is a sumpt...
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