Jakob Christmann

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De revolutionibus
manuscript, 1603

Jakob Christmann (November 1554 – 16 June 1613) was a German Orientalist who also studied problems of astronomy.

Life

Tractatio geometrica de quadratura circuli, 1595

Christmann was born in November 1554 in

Breslau, Vienna and Prague
.

In 1578,

Arabic language grammar
, Alphabetum arabicum, to his colleagues there.

After the return of the Reformed faith to the

Hebrew at the university in 1585. He compiled a catalog of the manuscripts of Guillaume Postel (1510–1581), located since 1551 at Heidelberg Castle. In 1590 he published a Latin translation of the astronomy of Al-Farghani. In 1609 at the urging of Elector Frederick IV, he was appointed Europe's second professor for the Arabic language.[1]

He died on 16 June 1613 in Heidelberg, at the age of 58.

Copernicus manuscript

A

Jagiellonian library
(Signatur: Ms. BJ. 10 000) and is accessible online.

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-387-31022-0
    . Retrieved August 22, 2012.
  2. Jagiellonian library). Finally, the autograph was taken care of by the university in which Nicholas Copernicus was educated and from which he received scientific foundation for his memorable work. - after "Pamięć Polski/ Memory of Poland/ Mémoire de la Pologne". Archived from the original on 2012-02-08. Retrieved 2015-08-10. and after Marian Zwiercan: The History of Nicholas Copernicus' Autograph - ""De revolutionibus": Foreword". Archived from the original
    on 2005-02-28. Retrieved 2007-11-27.
  3. ^ Venerabilis et eximii iuris utriusque doctoris, Dni Nicolai Copernick Canonici Varmiensis in Borussia Germaniae mathematici celeberimi opus de revolutionibus coelestibus propria manu exparatum et haectenus in biblioteca Georgii Ioachimii Rhetici item Valentini Othonis conferuatum, ad usum studii mathematici procurauit M. Iakobus Christmannus Decanus Facultatis artium, anno 1603, die 19 Decembris "Pamięć Polski/ Memory of Poland/ Mémoire de la Pologne". Archived from the original on 2011-05-25. Retrieved 2007-11-27. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-06-07. Retrieved 2013-01-07.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

Work

  • Alphabetum Arabicum cum isagoge Arabice legendi ac scribendi, Neustadt 1582
  • Muhammedis Alfraganii Arabis chronologia et astronomiae elementa, Frankfurt 1590

External links

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