Petrus Apianus
Peter Apian, Latinized Apianus Peter ( born April 16, 1495 Leisnig, † April 21, 1552 in Ingolstadt ), was a German scholar of the Renaissance. He was a mathematician, astronomer, geographer and cartographer, as well as printer and publisher.
Life and work
His original name was Peter Bennewitz or Bienewitz (Bee - joke within the meaning of bee -dorf; Latin apis meaning " Bee ").
Apian first studied in Leipzig and then went to Vienna ( until 1523) to be a student of Georg Tannstetter, " who gave the character at that time as a humanist -educated mathematician, astronomer and astrologer of the University of Vienna ." His respect Apian later expressed in the dedication of a book to Tannstetter from.
Apian in 1527 professor of mathematics at Ingolstadt, although he was only graduated to Bachelor. There he built up his own print shop (called " Academia " ), in which he described the important Tabula Hung aria (Hungary map ) printed in 1528, among others.
Apian collected extensive observational data on planetary movements and advanced scientific instruments that served to predict these planetary movements on the mechanical model. In part, it was there in his books sewn-in paper targets which could rotate in opposite directions. How these so-called Volvellen are to use, Apian explained in the course of his texts accurately. In this capacity, Apian developed a method for measuring lengths using geographical Moon distances. In 1527 he published the first Western author, before Blaise Pascal, a variant of Pascal's Triangle, which has already occurred earlier in Arab and Chinese writers. Observations of Halley's comet in 1531 were Peter Apian ( Girolamo Fracastoro and independently of him) recognize that the comet's tail always in the sun facing the opposite direction.
Apian acquired as court mathematician the favor of the Emperor Charles V., of him and his brothers ( George, Gregory, and Niclas ) on July 20, 1541 at the Diet of Regensburg ennobled by appointment to " knightly nobles " ( Reich knighthood ). A little later he was appointed Hofpfalzgrafen.
Peter Apian is the father of Philipp Apian.
Coat of arms
The Bennewitz / Apian family at the father's house of Peter Apian coat of arms on the market in Leisnig
Honors
1935, the lunar crater named after Apianus Apian.
The Peter Apian High School Leisnig bears his name.
Works (selection)
- Cosmographicus Liber. Landshut 1524
- A newe and wolgegründete under instructions of all Kauffmann bill ... Ingolstadt 1527 (ISBN 3-928671-11-1 )
- Instrument book Ingolstadt 1533
- Astronomicum Caesareum Ingolstadt 1540
- Novae Theo Ricae planetarum. Ingolstadt 1528
- Vitellionis Mathematici doctissimi Peri optikēs, id est de natura, ratione & proiectione radiorum visus, luminum, COLORUM atque formarum, quam vulgo perspectivam vocant. Nuremberg in 1535 (published jointly with Tannstetter - this took care of the template, the Apian pressure).