Johannes Schöner
Astrologer, Deceased Person
1477 – 1547
Who was Johannes Schöner?
Johannes Schöner was a renowned and respected German polymath. It is best to refer to him using the usual 16th-century Latin term "mathematicus", as the areas of study to which he devoted his life were very different from those now considered to be the domain of the mathematician. He was a priest, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, cosmographer, cartographer, mathematician, globe and scientific instrument maker and editor and publisher of scientific tests. In his own time he enjoyed a European wide reputation as an innovative and influential globe maker and cosmographer and as one of the continents leading and most authoritative astrologers. Today he is remembered as an influential pioneer in the history of globe making and as a man who played a significant role in the events that led up to the publishing of Copernicus' "De revolutionibus" in Nürnberg in 1543.
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- Born
- Jan 16, 1477
Karlstadt am Main - Also known as
- Johannes Schoner
- Nationality
- Germany
- Profession
- Education
- University of Erfurt
- Lived in
- Bavaria
- Died
- Jan 16, 1547
Nuremberg
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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