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    Georg von Peuerbach (also Purbach, Peurbach; Latin: Purbachius; 30 May 1423 – 8 April 1461) was an Austrian astronomer, poet, mathematician and instrument...
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    January 2018, Peuerbach merged with Bruck-Waasen, but maintained the name Stadtgemeinde Peuerbach. Aspöck Systems is based here. Georg von Peuerbach (1423-1461)...
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  • (d. 1063) 1201 – Theobald IV, count of Champagne (d. 1253) 1423 – Georg von Peuerbach, German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1461) 1464 – Barbara of...
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    planetarum by Georg von Peuerbach, compiled from lecture notes by Peuerbach's student Regiomontanus in 1454, but not printed until 1472. Peuerbach attempts...
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    in the Duchy of Austria, where he became a pupil and friend of Georg von Peuerbach. In 1452 he was awarded his bachelor's degree (baccalaureus), and...
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    Pseudo-Isidorian Decretals. He made friends with the Austrian astronomer Georg von Peuerbach and advocated a reform of the Julian calendar and the Easter computus...
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  • held this year in Valencia. Approximate date – Georgius Purbachius (Georg von Peuerbach)'s Theoricae nouae planetarum is published in Nuremberg, an early...
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    hills. Purbach is named after the 15th century Austrian astronomer Georg von Peuerbach. Like many of the craters on the Moon's near side, it was named (in...
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    18–23. Agricola, Georg (1494–1555) Archived 23 November 2008 at the Wayback Machine. Scs.uiuc.edu. Retrieved on 26 September 2011. von Zittel, Karl Alfred...
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    planetarum by Georg von Peuerbach, compiled from lecture notes by Peuerbach's student Regiomontanus in 1454 but printed only in 1472. Peuerbach attempts to...
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    planets were capable of motion without the intervention of angels. Georg von Peuerbach (1423–1461) and Regiomontanus (1436–1476) helped make astronomical...
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    Journal for the History of Astronomy, 13 (1982): 168–94, pp. 177–78. Hilderich von Varel (Edo Hildericus), Propositiones Cosmographicae de Globi Terreni Dimensione...
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  • (b. 1319) 1450 – Sejong the Great, Korean king (b. 1397) 1461 – Georg von Peuerbach, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1423) 1492 – Lorenzo de'...
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  • Maximilian I (1459–1519), Chevalier de Bayard (1476–1524), Franz von Sickingen (1481–1523) and Götz von Berlichingen (1480–1562). Maximilian (although Claude Michaud...
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  • tables. In 1425, he was elected canon at St. Stephen's Cathedral. Georg von Peuerbach succeeded him at Vienna University in 1450. John's origins are somewhat...
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    works of his predecessors and contemporaries. Georg von Peurbach (variants of the name: Purbach, Peuerbach, Purbachius) was an Austrian astronomer, mathematician...
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    meridian was set in the Fortress of Oradea (Varadinum at the time) by Georg von Peuerbach. In his logbook Columbus stated, he had one copy of Tabulae Varadienses...
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    presentation of Ptolemaic astronomy by 15th-century Austrian astronomer Georg von Peuerbach. Her other books include Regiomontano e il rinnovamento del sapere...
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    Galeotto Marzio, Regiomontanus, the famous astronomer Marcin Bylica and Georg von Peuerbach, Pier Paolo Vergerio and Antonio Bonfini, King Matthias's historian...
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    quinine, cinchonine, among many other discoveries in chemistry Georg von Peuerbach (1423–1461) – called the father of mathematical and observational...
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    the Hungarian goldsmith's art. It was at this time that astronomer Georg von Peuerbach wrote his Tabula Varadiensis, published posthumously in 1464, at...
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    spheres for Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn with epicycle, eccentric deferent and equant point. Georg von Peuerbach, Theoricae novae planetarum, 1474....
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    centuries and subsequently had an influence on astronomers such as Georg von Peuerbach during the European Middle Ages and Renaissance. In his Al-Shukūk...
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    Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, Tycho Brahe, Nicolaus Copernicus, Georg von Peuerbach, and Regiomontanus, with some tracts on the value of ancient money...
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  • (in battle) (b. 1421) Lionel de Welles, 6th Baron Welles April 8 – Georg von Peuerbach, Austrian astronomer (b. 1423) May 15 – Domenico Veneziano, Italian...
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  • May 18 – Lady Katherine Percy, English nobility (d. 1475) May 30 – Georg von Peuerbach, Austrian astronomer (d. 1461) June 2 – Ferdinand I of Naples (d...
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    the Ulm Rathaus. Peuerbach. The facade of Peuerbach Town Hall features an astrolabe clock, an enlarged copy of Georg von Peuerbach's original astrolabe...
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  • Derek Parker Julia Parker William Parron John Partridge Pellitus Georg von Peuerbach Porphyry Tiphaine Raguenel Pseudo-Geber Ptolemy Pythagoras Pothuluru...
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  • close correspondence with other astronomers, including the Austrian Georg von Peuerbach and the German Regiomontanus. In this period Król also served as...
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    introducing the most up-to-date texts. Albert was well versed in Georg von Peuerbach's Theory of the Planets and Regiomontanus' Astronomical Tables. He...
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