Michael Shank
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LOCATION: Madison, WI, United States
Professor of History of Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin. Author of Unless You Believe, You Shall Not Understand and The Scientific Enterprise in Antiquity and the Middle Ages.
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Regiomontanus was the foremost mathematician and astronomer of 15th-century Europe, a sought-after astrologer, and one of the first printers. Königsberg means “King’s Mountain,” which is what the Latinized version of his name, Joannes de Regio monte or Regiomontanus, also means. A miller’s son, he…
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