Regiomontanus: His Life and Work

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Regiomontanus: His Life and Work

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Table of Contents

Preface

Translator's Preface

I. Childhood

II. Kinship

III. The Leipzig Student Years

IV. The Vienna Student Years

A. Astronomy in Austria

B. The Modern Sundial and the Discovery of the Magnetic Declination of the Compass Needle

C. Georg Peuerbach

D. Regiomontanus's Works in Vienna

V. The Years of Travel in Italy

A. The Epitome of Ptolemy's Almagest

B. The De triangulis

C. Correspondence with Giovanni Bianchini

D. The Padua Lectures

E. Venetian Works

F. Works in Rome

VI. The Years of Travel in Hungary

A. The Tables

B. The Making of Instruments

C. The Observations

VII. The Nuremberg Master Years

A. The Work Plan

B. Mathematical Works

C. The Printing of Scientific Works

D. The Almanacs or Ephemerides

E. The Ephemerides during the Time of the Discovery of America

F. The Calendars

G. The Determination of Cometary Sizes and Distances

H. The Making of Instruments

I. The Nuremberg Observations

K. Minor Works

VIII. Regiomontanus's Death in Rome

IX. His Estate

X. Likenesses of Regiomontanus

XI His Personality and His Goals

XII. Posterity's Judgment of Regiomontanus

XIII. Scientific Works in the Estates of Regiomontanus and Walther

XIV. Notes

Bibliography

Index

Supplements

Introduction to the Supplements

From Königsberg to Rome

Regiomontanus and Leipzig

Supplements to Zinner's Book, "Leben und Wirken des Johannes Müller von Königsberg, genanntRegiomontanus"

The Most Recent Results of Research on Regiomontanus

Problems of Calendar Reform from Regiomontanus to the Present

New Results on the Mathematical Activity of Regiomontanus

On Regiomontanus's Arithmetic and Algebra in De triangulis Omnimodis libri quinq

Supplementary Literature on Regiomontanus

Works on Regiomontanus Published in the USSR or Written By Solviet Scholars

Conferences Commemorating Anniversaries of Regiomontanus's Birth or Death