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Georg Joachim Rheticus

Georg Joachim Rheticus

1514 CE1574 CE · Tisis (Feldkirch)

Georg Joachim de Porris, also known as Rheticus (; 16 February 1514 – 4 December 1574), was a mathematician, astronomer, cartographer, navigational-instrument maker, medical practitioner, and teacher. He is perhaps best known for his trigonometric tables and as Nicolaus Copernicus's sole pupil. He facilitated the publication of his master's De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres).

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Tisis (Feldkirch)Austria

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Tisis, a district of Feldkirch in Vorarlberg, western Austria. Hans Urs von Balthasar attended the Jesuit Stella Matutina school at Feldkirch in his youth.

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