Abstract
Regiomontanus is the most important astronomer and mathematician of the fifteenth century. An early mathematical humanist, he was committed to the recovery of ancient science and mathematics, publishing corrected texts inclusive of figures.
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Selected Primary Literature
Oratio in praelectione Alfragani. 1537. In Rudimenta astronomica Alfragrani, ed. Schöner. Nuremberg.
Regiomontanus, Defence of Theon against George of Trebizond. http://regio.dartmouth.edu/index.html
Scripta clasissimi mathematici M. Ioannis Regiomontani ... Norimbergae apud Ionnem Montanum et Ulricum Neuber, AD MDXLIIII. 1972. Facsimile edition: Joannis Regiomontani Opera collectanea. Osnabrück: Zeller Verlag.
Selected Secondary Literature
Byrne, J.S. 2006. A humanist history of mathematics? Regiomontanus’s Padua oration in context. Journal of the History of Ideas 67: 41–61.
Ernst Zinner. 1990. Regiomontanus: His life and work. Trans. Ezra Brown. Amsterdam: Elsevier. Originally published as Leben und Wirken des Johannes Midler von Konigsberg genannt Regiomontanus in 1938 with a second revised edition in 1968.
Malpangotto, Michela. 2008. Regiomontano e il rinnovamento del sapere matematico e astronomico nel Quattrocento. Bari: Cacucci.
Malpangotto, Michela. 2012. Vienne, Rome, Nuremberg: Regiomontanus et l’humanisme. In Europe et sciences modernes: Histoire d’un engendrement mutuel, ed. Vincent Jullien, Efthymios Nicolaidis, and Michel Blay, 105–132. Bern: Peter Lang.
Ragep, Jamil. 2005. `Alī Qushjī and Regiomontanus: Eccentric transformations and Copernican revolutions. Journal for the History of Astronomy 36: 359–371.
Rigo, Antonio. 1991. Bessarione, Giovanni Regiomontano e i loro studi su Tolomeo a Venezia e Roma (1462–1464). Studi Veneziani 21: 49–110.
Shank, Michael. 2007. Regiomontanus as a Physical Astronomer: Samplings from the Defense of Theon against George of Trebizond. Journal for the History of Astronomy 38: 325–349.
Shank, Michael. 2012. The geometrical diagrams in Regiomontanus’s edition of his own Disputationes (c. 1475): Background, production, and diffusion. Journal for the History of Astronomy 43: 27–55.
Swerdlow, Noel. 1993. Science and humanism in the Renaissance: Regiomontanus’s oration on the dignity and utility of the mathematical sciences. In World changes. Thomas Kuhn and the nature of science, ed. Paul Horwich, 131–168. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
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Baldasso, R. (2016). Regiomontanus, Johannes. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_954-1
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