See also:

• RHETICUS, or RRAETICUS (1514-1576)

RHETICUS, or RRAETICUS (1514-1576)  , a surname given to See also:

• GEORGE
• GEORGE, 8TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (1787-1876)
• GEORGE, HENRY (1839—1897)
• GEORGE, LAKE
• GEORGE, SAINT (d. 303)

GEORGE See also:

• JOACHIM, JOSEPH (1831—1907)

JOACHIM, See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German astronomer and mathematician, from his See also:

• BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages from the root of the verb " to bear ")

birth at See also:

• FELDKIRCH

Feldkirch in that See also:

• PART

part of See also:

• TIROL (or TYROL 1)

Tirol which was anciently the territory of the Rhaeti . See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

Born on the 15th of See also:

• FEBRUARY

February 1514, he studied at Tiguri with See also:

• OSWALD (c. 605—642)
• OSWALD (d. 992)

Oswald Mycone, and afterwards went to See also:

• WITTENBERG

Wittenberg where he was appointed See also:

• PROFESSOR (the Latin noun formed from the verb profiteri, to declare publicly, to acknowledge, profess)

professor of See also:

• MATHEMATICS (Gr. /saBnµar1Kil, Sc. vOcvn or E7rlQTt'µn; from p iN.La, "learning" or "science ")

mathematics in 1537 . Being greatly attracted by the new Copernican theory, he resigned the professorship in 1539, and went to Frauenberg to See also:

• ASSOCIATE (Lat. associates, from ad, to, and sociare to join)

associate himself with See also:

• COPERNICUS (or KOPPERNIGK), NICOLAUS (1473-1543)

Copernicus (q.v.), and superintended the See also:

• PRINTING (from Lat. imprimere, O. Fr. empreindre)

printing of the De Orbium Revolutione which he had persuaded Copernicus to See also:

• COMPLETE

complete . See also:

• RHETICUS, or RRAETICUS (1514-1576)

Rheticus now began his See also:

• GREAT

great See also:

• TREATISE

treatise, See also:

• OPUS ('O7rois)

Opus Palatinum de Triangulis, and continued to See also:

• WORK

work at it while he occupied his old See also:

• CHAIR (in. Mid. Eng. chcere, through O. Fr. chaire or chaiere, from Lat. cathedra, later caledra, Gr. xaOi3pa, seat, cf. "cathedral"; the modern Fr. form chaise, a chair, has been adopted in English with a particular meaning as a form of carriage; chaire

chair at Wittenberg, and indeed up to his See also:

• DEATH

death at Cassovia in See also:

• HUNGARY
• HUNGARY (Hungarian Magyarorszdg)

Hungary, on the 4th of See also:

• DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1576 . The Opus Palatinum of Rheticus, was published by See also:

• VALENTINE, or VALENTINUS

Valentine See also:

• OTHO, MARCUS SALVIUS (32-69)

Otho, mathematician to the electoral See also:

• PRINCE
• PRINCE (Lat. princeps, from primus capio, " I am the first to take "; Ital. principe, Fr. prince)

prince See also:

• PALATINE (from Lat. palatium, a palace,)

palatine, in 1596 . It gives tables of sines and cosines, tangents, &c., for every ro seconds, calculated to ten places . He had projected a table of the same See also:

• KIND (O. E. ge-cynde, from the same root as is seen in " kin," supra)

kind to fifteen places, but did not live to complete it . The sine table, however, was afterwards published on this See also:

• SCALE
• SCALE (1) A

scale under the name of See also:

• THESAURUS (Gr. B17o-avp6s)

Thesaurus Mathematicus (See also:

• FRANKFORT

Frankfort, 16'3) by B . Pitiscus (1561-1613), who himself carried the calculation of a few of the earlier sines to twenty-two places . He also published Narratio de Libris Revolutionum Copernici (Gedenum, 1540), which was subsequently added to See also:

• EDITIONS

editions of Copernicus's See also:

• WORKS

works; and Ephemerides until 1551, which were founded on the Copernican doctrines . He projected numerous other works, as is shown by a See also:

• LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

letter to See also:

• PETER
• PETER (Lat. Petrus from Gr. irfpos, a rock, Ital. Pietro, Piero, Pier, Fr. Pierre, Span. Pedro, Ger. Peter, Russ. Petr)
• PETER (PEDRO)
• PETER, EPISTLES OF
• PETER, ST

Peter See also:

• RAMUS, PETRUS, or PIERRE DE LA RAMEE (1515-1572)

Ramus in f568, which See also:

• ADRIAN
• ADRIAN, SAINT

Adrian See also:

• ROMANUS

Romanus inserted in the See also:

• PREFACE (Med. Lat. prefatia, for classical praefatio, praefari, to speak beforehand)

preface to his See also:

• IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

Idea of Mathematics .