Werner, Johann (1468-1522)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4086. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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Astronomer, mathematician, instrument-maker and geographer, born in Nuremberg, Germany, follower of Regiomontanus. Regiomontanus had suggested that the timing of eclipses and the orbits of comets could be used as clocks to determine longitude. Werner developed a practical version of this idea with the method of lunar distances (i.e. measuring the angle of the Moon from the Sun). He published this...

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