Müller (named Regiomontanus), Johannes (1436 - 1476)

Inventor, designer

Johannes Müller, better known fron the Latinized version of the name of his birth place (Königsberg means “King’s Mountain,) Regiomontanus. He built astronomical instruments, like astrolabes for the King of Hungary Matthias Corvinus and for Cardinal Bessarion. Regiomontano built one of the most famous automata, the wooden Eagle of Regiomontanus, which flew from the city of Königsberg to meet the Emperor, greet him and back. He built also an iron fly which he himself said that raised from his hands, it flew in a circle and returned to him.
Who-is-Who in MMS, theory, designer, inventor, treatizer., precision mechanics, measunring instrument, automata

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Müller (named Regiomontanus), Johannes

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* 06.06.1436	Unfinden - Königsberg	geboren
1448	Wien	just 12 years old he is a pupil of Peuerbach, University of Wien
1461 - 1465	Roma	He was in Rome, guest of Cardinal Bessarion, papal legate to the Holy Roman Empire, whom he had met in Vienna.
1464		he publishes “De Triangulis”, one of the first European books on trigonometry
1467		He moved to Hungary at the Court of King Matthias Corvinus
1471	Nürnberg	He settled in Nuremberg where he founded the first Observatory in Germany
* 1472	Roma	Pope Sixtus V invited him to Rome to reform the calendar
† 06.07.1476	Roma	gestorben

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Müller (named Regiomontanus), Johannes (1436 - 1476)