ProofWiki:Mathematicians/Petrus Apianus
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Also known as Peter Apian. Born as Peter Bienewitz (or Bennewitz), he Latinized his name (Biene is German and Apis is Latin for "bee") while at Leipzig University.
German humanist and mathematician.
One of his books significantly appears in the painting The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the Younger.
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Nationality
German
History
- Born: 16 April 1495, Leisnig, Saxony
- 1516 to 1519: Studied at the University of Leipzig
- 1526: Married Katharina Mosner, the daughter of a councilman of Landshut
- 1527: Appointed Professor of Mathematics at the University of Ingolstadt
- Died: 21 April 1552, Ingolstadt, Bavaria, Germany
Theorems
Books and Papers
- 1522: Typus orbis universalis (a world map)
- 1523: Isagoge (a commentary on Typus orbis universalis)
- 1524: Cosmographia seu descriptio totius orbis, also known as Cosmographicus liber (based largely on work by Ptolemy)
- 1527: Ein newe und wolgegründete underweisung aller Kauffmanns Rechnung in dreyen Büchern, mit schönen Regeln und fragstücken begriffen (a handbook of commercial arithmetic). This was the work depicted in the painting The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the Younger. It is also notable for being the first work in published in Europe to include, on its frontispiece, a depiction of Pascal's Triangle.
- 1532: Ein kurtzer bericht der Observation unnd urtels des jüngst erschinnen Cometen
- 1532: Quadrans Apiani astronomicus (on quadrants)
- 1533: Horoscopion Apiani (on sundials)
- 1533: Instrument Buch (a scientific book on astronomical instruments in German)
- 1534: Instrumentum primi mobilis (on trigonometry, contains sine tables)
- 1540: Astronomicum Caesareum
