Regiomontanus, German mathematician and astrologer (born 1436)

Regiomontanus

German mathematician and astronomer (1436–1476)

Johannes Müller von Königsberg, better known as Regiomontanus, was a mathematician, astrologer and astronomer of the German Renaissance, active in Vienna, Buda and Nuremberg. His contributions were instrumental in the development of Copernican heliocentrism in the decades…