Erasmus Oswald Schreckenfuchs

Erasmus Oswald terror Fuchs ( * Merck 1511 in Stone, † 1579 in Freiburg im Breisgau) was a mathematician and astronomer, orator, humanist and Hebrew scholar.

Life

The pupil of Sebastian Münster 1550 was professor of mathematics, rhetoric, and Hebrew at the University of Tübingen and then at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau.

1566 Second edition of Nicolaus Copernicus ' De revolutionibus orbium Coelestium was printed from Münster's stepson in Basel. According to the Copernicus Biography of Pierre Gassendi in 1654 he had knowledge of his major work De revolutionibus in 1543 to published Orbium Coelestium and was an early supporter of the heliocentric world view. He created an instrument with which he could illustrate both systems, which Tycho Brahe but thought impossible.

When his teacher Sebastian Münster had died on May 26, 1552 from the effects of the plague, the Chummy with him terror Fuchs held a memorial speech in Hebrew.

Works

  • EO terror Fuchs: Commentaria in novas theo ricas planetarum Georgii Purbachii, 1556, Basel
  • E. O. terror Fuchs: Primum Mobile, in 1567, Basel
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