Achilles Gasser

November 3, 1505 (age 72)

Lindau, Germany

He is now known as a well-connected humanist scholar, and supporter of both Copernicus and Rheticus. Gasser later took over the practice in Feldkirch, in 1538. He taught Rheticus some astrology, and helped his education, in particular by writing to the University of Wittenberg on his behalf. When Rheticus printed his Narratio prima—the first published account of the Copernican heliocentric system—in 1540 (Danzig), he sent Gasser a copy. Gasser then undertook a second edition (1541, Basel) with his own introduction, in the form of a letter from Gasser to Georg Vogelin of Konstanz. The second edition (1566, Basel) of De revolutionibus orbium coelestium contained the Narratio Prima with this introduction by Gasser. Gasser died in Augsburg.

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Born in Lindau, he studied mathematics, history and philosophy as well as astronomy. He was a student in Sélestat under Johannes Sapidus. He also attended universities in Wittenberg, Vienna, Montpellier, and Avignon.

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He is now known as a well-connected humanist scholar, and supporter of both Copernicus and Rheticus. Gasser later took over the practice in Feldkirch, in 1538. He taught Rheticus some astrology, and helped his education, in particular by writing to the University of Wittenberg on his behalf.

When Rheticus printed his Narratio prima—the first published account of the Copernican heliocentric system—in 1540 (Danzig), he sent Gasser a copy.

Gasser then undertook a second edition (1541, Basel) with his own introduction, in the form of a letter from Gasser to Georg Vogelin of Konstanz. The second edition (1566, Basel) of De revolutionibus orbium coelestium contained the Narratio Prima with this introduction by Gasser.

Gasser died in Augsburg.

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