Austrian People by Period - Austrian Renaissance Humanists, Georg Joachim Rheticus, Johannes Cuspinianus, Wolfgang Lazius (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Austrian Renaissance Humanists, Georg Joachim Rheticus, Johannes Cuspinianus, Wolfgang Lazius, Erasmus Oswald Schreckenfuchs, Andreas Stoberl, Johannes Stabius, Thomas Resch. Excerpt: Georg Joachim von Lauchen, also known as Rheticus (16 February 1514 4 December 1574), was a mathematician, cartographer, navigational-instrument maker, medical practitioner, and teacher. He is perhaps best known for his trigonometric tables and for being Nicolaus Copernicus' sole pupil, who facilitated the publication of Copernicus' De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres). Rheticus was born at Feldkirch, Austria. Both his parents possessed considerable wealth, and the father, Georg Iserin, was the town physician. However, he abused the trust of many of his patients, stealing belongings and money from their homes. In 1528 he was convicted and executed for his crimes, and as a result his family was stripped of their surname. The son took as his last name a form of the Latin name for his home region, Rhaetia, a Roman province that had included parts of Austria, Switzerland and Germany; he would be called Rheticus. The crater Rhaeticus is named for him. After Iserin's death, Achilles Gasser took over his medical practice. Gasser helped Rheticus continue his studies and was a strong support to him. Rheticus studied at Feldkirch, Zrich and the University of Wittenberg, where he received his M.A. in 1536. Philipp Melanchthon, the theologian and educator, greatly assisted Rheticus in obtaining appointments at several universities. During the Reformation, Melanchthon reorganized the whole educational system of Germany, reforming and founding several new universities. In 1536 Rheticus was aided by Melanchthon in obtaining appointm... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=50392