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Michael Maestlin
Overview
Michael Maestlin (German: [ˈmɛstliːn]; also Mästlin, Möstlin, or Moestlin; 30 September 1550 – 26 October 1631) was a German astronomer and mathematician, best known as the mentor of Johannes Kepler. A student of Philipp Apian, Maestlin is recognized as the teacher who had the greatest influence on Kepler. He is regarded as one of the most significant astronomers of the period between Copernicus and Kepler.He was the first to write a decimal approximation of the Golden ratio.
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In order to cultivate his friendship, he was allowed to engage several English artificers into his service, as he had done in Holland; but, over and above artificers, he engaged likewise some mathematicians, which he would not so easily have found in Amsterdam. Ferguson, a Scotchman, an excellent geometrician, entered into his service, and was the first person who brought arithmetic into use in the exchequer in…
Voltaire, The History of Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia
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Leaving here these details of astronomical progress, and the philosophy of it, let us observe how the relatively concrete science of geometrical astronomy, having been thus far helped forward by the development of geometry in general, reacted upon geometry, caused it also to advance, and was again assisted by it. Hipparchus, before making his solar and lunar tables, had to discover rules for calculating the…
Herbert Spencer, Essays on education and kindred subjects
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Here, within our own limited knowledge of its history, we have named ten additional cases in which the single science of astronomy has owed its advance to sciences coming _after_ it in M. Comte's series. Not only its secondary steps, but its greatest revolutions have been thus determined.
Herbert Spencer, Illustrations of Universal Progress
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Philosophers who discussed Michael Maestlin
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- De revolutionibus orbium coelestium
- Golden ratio
- Harvard University Press
- Deferent and epicycle
- Johannes Kepler
- Mathematician
- Lutheranism
- Ptolemy
- Euclid's Elements
- Heliocentrism
- Protestantism
- University of Tübingen
- Galileo Galilei
- Tübingen
- Nicolaus Copernicus
- Heidelberg
- Marburg
- Astronomer
- Euclid
- Mysterium Cosmographicum
- Philipp Apian
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Part of German philosophy.