Thomas Fincke
Thomas Finck (also: Finkius; * January 6, 1561 in Flensburg, † April 24, 1656 in Copenhagen ) was a German mathematician and physician.
Life
Pre- Forms by his father Jacob Finck, who had already learned from Philipp Melanchthon, he attended school in Flensburg and involved 16- year the University of Strasbourg. There he studied with John Storm and Conrad Dasypodius. He then attended the University of Heidelberg, the University of Jena, the University of Wittenberg and Leipzig University. Returned to his home, he did domestic businesses and turned to the University of Basel. Here he published in 1583 the work " Geometriae Rotundi libri XIV", which should be a widely used and accepted work.
Medical studies following, he went to Italy where he indulges in Padua, Pisa, Florence and other places, his training. 1587 he goes to the Gottorp Castle, where he was appointed the personal physician of Philip of Schleswig -Holstein - Gottorp. After his death he goes to the University of Copenhagen in 1591 as a professor of mathematics. He takes over in 1602 professor of rhetoric, which he exchanged in 1603 with a professorship of medicine, and which he held until his death.
Selections
- Geometriae Rotundi libri XIV, Basel 1583
- Horoscopographia, Basel 1583, Schleswig 1591
- De constitutione philosophiae mathematicae, 1591
- De Hypothesibus astroitronomicis
- De Medicinae Constitutione
- De Peste