Regiomontanus
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Regiomontanus was a 15th-century German mathematician and astronomer whose advanced astronomical tables and theoretical work significantly shaped the development of Renaissance astronomy and influenced later figures like Copernicus.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Johannes Regiomontanus | 2 |
| Regiomontanus canonical | 2 |
| Johann Müller von Königsberg | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
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Target entity: Regiomontanus Context triple: [Nicolaus Copernicus, influencedBy, Regiomontanus]
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Wilhelm Keppler
Wilhelm Keppler was a German industrialist and early economic adviser to Adolf Hitler who became a prominent Nazi official involved in the regime’s economic and industrial policies.
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Tycho Brahe
Tycho Brahe was a Danish nobleman and astronomer whose precise naked-eye observations of the heavens greatly improved astronomical data and paved the way for Kepler’s laws of planetary motion.
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Giovanni Battista Hodierna
Giovanni Battista Hodierna was a 17th-century Italian astronomer and priest known for his early cataloging of nebulae and star clusters, including several deep-sky objects later popularized by Messier.
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Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler was a pioneering 17th-century German astronomer and mathematician best known for formulating the three laws of planetary motion that laid crucial groundwork for classical mechanics.
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Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance-era astronomer and mathematician best known for formulating the heliocentric model that placed the Sun, rather than the Earth, at the center of the universe.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Regiomontanus Target entity description: Regiomontanus was a 15th-century German mathematician and astronomer whose advanced astronomical tables and theoretical work significantly shaped the development of Renaissance astronomy and influenced later figures like Copernicus.
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A.
Wilhelm Keppler
Wilhelm Keppler was a German industrialist and early economic adviser to Adolf Hitler who became a prominent Nazi official involved in the regime’s economic and industrial policies.
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B.
Tycho Brahe
Tycho Brahe was a Danish nobleman and astronomer whose precise naked-eye observations of the heavens greatly improved astronomical data and paved the way for Kepler’s laws of planetary motion.
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C.
Giovanni Battista Hodierna
Giovanni Battista Hodierna was a 17th-century Italian astronomer and priest known for his early cataloging of nebulae and star clusters, including several deep-sky objects later popularized by Messier.
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Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler was a pioneering 17th-century German astronomer and mathematician best known for formulating the three laws of planetary motion that laid crucial groundwork for classical mechanics.
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Nicolaus Copernicus
Nicolaus Copernicus was a Renaissance-era astronomer and mathematician best known for formulating the heliocentric model that placed the Sun, rather than the Earth, at the center of the universe.
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Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Catholic priest
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Renaissance scientist ⓘ astrologer ⓘ astronomer ⓘ human ⓘ mathematician ⓘ |
| academicAdvisor | Georg von Peuerbach ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Regiomontanus
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surface form:
Johann Müller von Königsberg
Regiomontanus ⓘ
surface form:
Johannes Regiomontanus
Johannes de Monteregio ⓘ |
| birthName |
Johannes Müller von Königsberg
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surface form:
Johannes Müller
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| causeOfDeath | plague ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Holy Roman Empire ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1436-06-06 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1476-07-06 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
University of Leipzig
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University of Vienna ⓘ |
| employer | Matthias Corvinus ⓘ |
| era |
15th century
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Renaissance ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | German ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
astrology
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astronomy ⓘ mathematics ⓘ trigonometry ⓘ |
| founded | first scientific printing press in Nuremberg ⓘ |
| influenced |
Nicolaus Copernicus
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Renaissance astronomy ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Georg von Peuerbach
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Claudius Ptolemaeus ⓘ
surface form:
Ptolemy
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| knownFor |
advancing trigonometry as an independent discipline
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critical study of Ptolemy's Almagest ⓘ early use of printing for scientific works ⓘ highly accurate astronomical tables ⓘ |
| languageOfWorkOrName |
German
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Latin ⓘ |
| locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity | Franconia ⓘ |
| notableAchievement |
helped prepare and extend Peuerbach’s Epitome of the Almagest
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produced ephemerides used by navigators such as Christopher Columbus ⓘ systematized plane and spherical trigonometry in De triangulis omnimodis ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Calendarium
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De triangulis omnimodis ⓘ Ephemerides ⓘ Epitome of the Almagest ⓘ Tabulae directionum ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Königsberg in Franken
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Königsberg in Franken ⓘ
surface form:
Königsberg, Bishopric of Würzburg
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| placeOfDeath | Rome ⓘ |
| positionHeld | court astronomer to King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary ⓘ |
| religion |
Roman Catholicism
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surface form:
Catholicism
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| workLocation |
Nuremberg
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Rome ⓘ Vienna ⓘ |
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Subject: Regiomontanus Description of subject: Regiomontanus was a 15th-century German mathematician and astronomer whose advanced astronomical tables and theoretical work significantly shaped the development of Renaissance astronomy and influenced later figures like Copernicus.
Referenced by (5)
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