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    Michael Maestlin (also Mästlin, Möstlin, or Moestlin) (30 September 1550 – 26 October 1631) was a German astronomer and mathematician, known for being...
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    German mathematician Michael Maestlin. To the east lies the crater Encke and to the northeast is Kepler. Just to the southeast of Maestlin is the curved, ridge-like...
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    weather prevented Kepler from making observations. Wilhelm Fabry, Michael Maestlin, and Helisaeus Roeslin were able to make observations on 9 October...
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    (a student of Philipp Melanchthon at Wittenberg), who also taught Michael Maestlin while he was a student, until he became Chancellor at Tübingen in 1590...
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    to 1585, aided by Rothmann's discussion of the comet of 1585 and Michael Maestlin's tabulated distances of the comet of 1577, which passed through the...
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    in 1597 by Michael Maestlin of the University of Tübingen in a letter to Kepler, his former student. The same year, Kepler wrote to Maestlin of the Kepler...
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    apparatus of De Revolutionibus itself." According to the notes of Michael Maestlin, "Rheticus...became embroiled in a very bitter wrangle with the printer...
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    10 August 2017. "Michael Maestlin and the Comet of 1618 (PDF Download Available)". ResearchGate. Retrieved 10 August 2017. John Michael Lewis, Galileo in...
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    Countries; and in Germany, the largest group—Georg Joachim Rheticus, Michael Maestlin, Christoph Rothmann (who may have later recanted), and Johannes Kepler...
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    Klosterneuburg, Austria (1971) Pessac, France (2000) Sonneberg, Germany (1990) Michael Maestlin (1550–1631), mathematician and astronomer Friedrich Christoph Oetinger...
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    mathematician and astronomer Ludolph van Ceulen (1540-1610), mathematician Michael Maestlin (1550-1631), mathematician, astronomer, Kepler's mentor Johannes Kepler...
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    that seemed to support geocentrism. With the support of his mentor Michael Maestlin, Kepler received permission from the Tübingen university senate to...
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  • Yuri Luchko Wolfgang Lück Stephan Luckhaus Günter Lumer Jacob Lüroth Michael Maestlin Paul Mahlo Helmut Maier Hans Carl Friedrich von Mangoldt Yuri Manin...
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    suppress a rebellion in the Shan state of Mogaung. German astronomer Michael Maestlin becomes the first person to record an observation of the occultation...
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    Harmonice Mundi around 1599, which was the year Kepler sent a letter to Michael Maestlin detailing the mathematical data and proofs that he intended to use...
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    Copernicus's heliocentric model. Among those who did were the Germans Michael Maestlin (1550–1631), Christoph Rothmann, Johannes Kepler (1571–1630); the Englishman...
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    distance of a comet from Earth. In the 16th century, Tycho Brahe and Michael Maestlin demonstrated that comets must exist outside of Earth's atmosphere by...
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  • by Venus on 13 October 1590 was observed by the German astronomer Michael Maestlin at Heidelberg. The 1737 event (see list below) was observed by John...
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    occultation of Mars by Venus observed was that of 13 October 1590, seen by Michael Maestlin at Heidelberg. In 1610, Mars was viewed by Italian astronomer Galileo...
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    using the Copernican model. On October 13, 1590, the German astronomer Michael Maestlin observed an occultation of Mars by Venus. One of his students, Johannes...
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  • performs first direct blood transfusion (died 1691) October 20 – Michael Maestlin, German astronomer and mathematician (born 1550) October 26 – Catherine...
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  • Girolamo Mercuriale, Italian philologist and physician (d. 1606) 1550 – Michael Maestlin, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1631) 1622 – Johann Sebastiani...
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    as the temporary Flemish capital. December 24 – German astronomer Michael Maestlin makes the first cataloging of the Pleiades cluster, recording 11 separate...
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    poet, playwright, humanist, mathematician, astronomer (1547–1590) Michael Maestlin, astronomer, mathematician (1550–1631) Hans Ulrich von Eggenberg, Statesman...
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    Frederick of Brieg, Duke of Wołów (1586–1602) (d. 1602) September 30 – Michael Maestlin, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1631) October 1 – Anne of...
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  • Matsudaira Tadayori, Japanese samurai and daimyō (b. 1582) 1631 – Michael Maestlin, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1550) 1633 – Horio Tadaharu...
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    as the temporary Flemish capital. December 24 – German astronomer Michael Maestlin makes the first cataloging of the Pleiades cluster, recording 11 separate...
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    Mecklenburg-Güstrow, queen and regent of Denmark (b. 1557) October 20 – Michael Maestlin, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1550) October 26 – Catherine...
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  • Mecklenburg-Güstrow, queen and regent of Denmark (b. 1557) October 20 – Michael Maestlin, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1550) October 26 – Catherine...
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    the time and graduates of Wittenberg such as Erasmus Reinhold and Michael Maestlin. In his time at Wittenberg, Peucer was also one of the main promoters...
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