Regiomontanus
Americannoun
noun
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In 1471 Regiomontanus worked out a procedure for measuring the parallax of heavenly bodies and so their distance from the Earth.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
The question I ask is not ‘Were Regiomontanus and Hobbes right about mathematics?’ but ‘How did their understanding of mathematics help lay the groundwork for reliable scientific knowledge?’
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
But, where perspective painting takes a three-dimensional world and turns it into a two-dimensional surface, Regiomontanus was now trying to take a two-dimensional image—the night sky—and turn it into a three-dimensional world.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Regiomontanus, it is true, planned to publish him, but, where other texts Regiomontanus had planned to publish appeared in print in due course, Theodoric’s little treatise did not.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
This was to become the standard textbook in advanced astronomy for the whole of the sixteenth century, and in it Peuerbach and Regiomontanus did not hesitate to criticize Ptolemy for his errors.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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