Gemma Frisius, Reiner [Regner, Regnier] (1508-55)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3647. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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Born in Dokkum, Friesland, Netherlands, became professor of medicine and mathematics at the University of Louvain. In 1530 wrote De Principiis Astronomiae Cosmographicae in which he describes, for the first time, how the longitude of a place may be found using a clock (`it must be a very finely made clock which does not vary with change of air') to determine the difference in local and absolute t...

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