Apian [Bienewitz or Bennewitz], Peter (1495-1552)

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Nov 2000

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"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

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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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