Johannes Praetorius or Johann Richter (1537 – 27 October 1616) was a Bohemian German mathematician and astronomer. Praetorius was born in Jáchymov, Bohemia...

Praetorius, Prätorius, Prætorius was the name of several musicians and scholars in Germany. In 16th and 17th century Germany it became a fashion for educated...

date relative to the major European witch trials, German writer Johannes Praetorius published "Blockes-Berges Verrichtung", with the subtitle "Oder Ausführlicher...

Johannes Praetorius (latinization of Hans Schultz; also called Praetorius Zeitlingensis to differentiate him from others with the same pen name; October...

of Giorgio Valla. Its abbreviation q.e.d. is used once in 1598 by Johannes Praetorius, more in 1643 by Anton Deusing, extensively in 1655 by Isaac Barrow...

Praetorius was the conventional Latinized form of this family name, Schultze meaning "village judge or magistrate" in German. The Latin Praetorius means...

Family Singers (born to the Captain von Trapp and Maria von Trapp) is Johannes von Trapp. Georg von Trapp had seven children at the time of the death...

Koeckritz. The Rübezahl story was first collected and written down by Johannes Praetorius in the Daemonologia Rubinzalii Silesii (1662). The character later...

torture. Praetorius was born in Lippstadt as the son of Matthes Schulze.[better source needed] He later changed his name to the Latin Praetorius. He studied...

Title illustration of Johannes Praetorius (writer) Blocksbergs Verrichtung (1668) showing many traditional features of the medieval Witches' Sabbath...

Lucar in 1590. Some have credited Johann Richter, also known as Johannes Praetorius, a Nuremberg mathematician, in 1610 with the first plane table, but...

thrower) Thomas Tuschl (born 1966), biochemist Johann Richter or Johannes Praetorius (1537–1616), German mathematician and astronomer Wallenstein (1583–1634)...

books, he had found a note attributing the introduction to Osiander. Johannes Praetorius (1537–1616), who learned of Osiander's authorship from Rheticus during...

Stephan Praetorius (or Prætorius) (German: Stephan Prätorius; 3 May 1536, in Salzwedel – 4 May 1603, in Salzwedel) was a German Lutheran theologian and...

Adolf Piltz Julius Plücker Leo August Pochhammer Burkard Polster Johannes Praetorius William Prager Alfred Pringsheim Heinz Prüfer Friedrich Prym Rodolphe...

make sacrifice in them to their own gods." In the 17th century, Johannes Praetorius rather wildly conjectured that dusios ought to be drusios, connected...

Witches' Sabbath at the Blocksberg, Johannes Praetorius, Leipzig, 1668...

17th century. Versions are recorded by Heinrich Kornmann (1614) and Johannes Praetorius (1668). The Venusberg legend has been interpreted as a Christianised...

Primus for four, five, six, seven, eight, and more voices (Augsburg: Johannes Praetorius) Bartholomäus Gesius – Psalmodia choralis (Frankfurt an der Oder:...

Walburga. The Germanic term Walpurgisnacht is recorded in 1668 by Johannes Praetorius as S. Walpurgis Nacht or S. Walpurgis Abend. An earlier mention of...

solidifying its practicality and viability in ancient astronomy. Additionally, Johannes Schoner built a torquetum model for his own personal use in the observation...

1603) date unknown Johann Klemm, German organist and composer (born c.1593) Johannes Praetorius, organist and composer (born 1595) "Opening Night!"....

Extensive interview with Johannes Schöllhorn "Johannes Schöllhorn (biography, works, resources)" (in French and English). IRCAM. Johannes Schöllhorn on Éditions...

Petri Caspar Peucer Julius Plücker August Pott Johannes Praetorius Edmond de Pressensé Robert Prutz Johannes Andreas Quenstedt Karl Wilhelm Ramler Werner...

Plenzdorf (1934–2007, d/f) Luise von Ploennies (1803–1872, p/d) Johannes Praetorius, pseudonym of Hans Schulz (1630–1680, nf) Paula von Preradović (1887–1951...

Voelkel, James R. (November 2007). "Book Review: A Kepler Miscellany, Johannes Kepler Gesammelte Werke". Journal for the History of Astronomy. 38 (4):...

October 23 – Leonhard Hutter, German theologian (b. 1563) October 27 – Johannes Praetorius, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1537) November 3 – Agnes...

Zacharias Praetorius (né Breiter) (15 April 1535 in Mansfeld – 22 December 1575 in Eisleben) was a German Lutheran poet and theologian. Praetorius was born...

Australia, f/p/ch) Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802–1839, England, p/nf) Johannes Praetorius (1537–1616, Bohemia/Germany, nf) Jaishankar Prasad (1889–1937, India...

mathematician and astronomer. In 1573 he came to Wittenberg, proposing to Johannes Praetorius an approximation of pi as π ≈ 355 113 {\displaystyle \pi \approx...