Georg joachim rheticus biography of alberta

On February 16, 1514, mathematician, cartographer, navigational-instrument maker, medical practitioner, and teacherGeorg Joachim Rheticus was born.

He is perhaps best known for his trigonometric tables and as Nicolaus Copernicus’ [4] sole pupil, who facilitated the publication of his master’s famous work De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres).

Georg Joachim Rheticus – Youth and Education

Georg Joachim Rheticus was born in Feldkirch, the county of Tyrol in the Holy Roman Empire, as the son of Georg Iserin, the town medical officer of Feldkirch, and the northern Italian noblewoman Thomasina de Porris.

He was taught by his father in his early life, but when the young Rheticus was only 14 years old, his father was accused of witchcraft and fraud and executed in 1528. The boy was then highly supported by Achilles Gasser, who took over his fatherR