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The teacher of Regiomontanus, Georg of Peurbach was one of the beginners in a thorough process of modernization of the traditional mathematical astronomy.
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Strano, G. (2022). Peurbach, Georg of. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14169-5_77
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