Georg Tanstetter( German astronomer, astrologer, mathematician and physician.)
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Biography Georg Tanstetter
(Tanstetter von Tanna; Tannstetter von Thannau); pseudonym - Kollimitsius (Collimitius) . (1482, Ryan, Bavaria - 1535, Vienna; on dr.dannym 1480 - 1530) . He was educated at Ingolstadt and University of Vienna and soon became well known as a great astrologer and a great doctor . Doctor of Medicine, Doctor of Arts. He taught astronomy at the University of Vienna. In 1510, Mr.. a personal astrologer and physician-in-physician Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I (1493 - 1519). T. made by the publisher of tables and tables of eclipses Purbaha Regiomontanus. Among the astrological works of T. - Book "Libellus consolatoris ..." (Vienna, 1523), devoted to the parade of planets in 1524, Mr.. in Pisces (which he vehemently opposed the rumors about the possibility of a second flood), and a treatise on medical astrology "Artificium de applicatione astrologie ad medicinam ..." (Strasbourg, 1531). He also produced more than 20 years of astrological prognostication.
Literature: 1. BOSLs Bayerische Biographie. / Herausgegeben von Karl Bosl. 2. Kurze F. Popular Astrology in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries. / / 'Astrologi hallucinati'. Stars and the End of the World in Luther's time. 3. Poggendorff JC. Biographisch-literarisches Handwoerterbuch zur geschichte der exacten Wissenschaften ... 4. Thorndike L. A History of Magic and Experimental Science. Vol. V. 5. Ebertin R. Astrological Healing.
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