Flourished Prague, (Czech Republic), 1584
Itinerant German Nicholaus Bär seems to have plagiarized most of his cosmological ideas from Tycho Brahe. However, in his variation of the Tychonic system, Mars' orbit enclosed that of the Sun. Brahe replaced Bär as imperial mathematician.
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Jardine, N. (1984). The Birth of History and Philosophy of Science: Kepler's A Defence of Tycho against Ursus with Essays on Its Provenance and Significance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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(2007). Bär, Nicholaus Reymers. In: Hockey, T., et al. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7_110
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