Born Königsberg, (Bavaria, Germany), 6 June 1436
Died Rome, (Italy), 8 July 1476
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Regiomontanus and G. Peurbach. (1496). Epytoma Joanis De Monte regio In almagestum ptolomei. Venice: Johannes Hamman. (Translation from Greek to Latin of a condensed version of Ptolemy's Almagest, with commentary, by Peurbach and Regiomontanus. Their commentary included some mention of where Ptolemy had erred, which caught Copernicus's attention and was thus influential.)
Hughes, Barnabus (trans.) (1967). Regiomontanus on Triangles. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. (Recent English translation of Regiomontanus's monumental work on geometry and trigonometry.)
Pedersen, Olaf (1978). “The Decline and Fall of the Theorica Planetarum: Renaissance Astronomy and The Art of Printing.” In Science and History: Studies in Honor of Edward Rosen, edited by Erna Hilfstein et al., pp. 157–185. Studia Copernicana, Vol. 16, 161ff. Wroclaw: Ossolineum, Polish Academy of Sciences Press. (Discussion of Regiomontanus' printing philosophy and his impressions of Peurbach's work, with some translation of Regiomontanus' passages into English.)
Regiomontanus. (1474). Ephemerides. Nuremberg: Johann Muller of Königsberg.
——— (1474). Kalendar fuer 1475–1531. Nuremberg: Johann Muller of Königsberg.
——— (1972). Joannis Regiomontani opera collectanea, edited with an introduction by Felix Schmeidler. Osnabrück: Otto Zeller. (Recent publication of ten of the main written works attributed to Regiomontanus.)
Schöner, J. (ed.) (1544). “Ioannis de Monteregio et Barnardi Waltheri eivs discipvli ad solem obseruationes,” and “Ioannis de Monteregio, Georgii Pevrbachii, Bernardi Waltheri, ac aliorum, Eclipsium, Cometarum, Planetarum ac Fixarum obseruationes.” In Scripta clarissimi mathematici. Nuremberg. Johannem Montanum & Ulricum Neuber. (Contains astronomical observations of Regiomontanus and his colleagues, though with some typographical errors.)
Snell, W. (1618). Coeli & siderum in eo errantium Observationes Hassiacae Lantgravii … Quibus accesserunt Ioannis Regiomontani & Bernardi Walteri Observationes Noribergiacae. Leiden: Justum Colsterum. (Contains astronomical observations of Regiomontanus and his colleagues, though with some typographical errors.)
Steele, John M. and F. Richard Stephenson (1998). “Eclipse Observations Made by Regiomontanus and Walther.” Journal for the History of Astronomy 29: 331–344. (Translation of eclipse observations with technical assessment.)
Thorndike, Lynn (1934, 1941). A History of Magic and Experimental Science. Vol. 4 (1934): p440ff; Vol. 5 (1941): 332ff. New York: Columbia University Press. (Extensive discussions of Regiomontanus and his impact on astronomy in late‐medieval and early‐modern times.)
Zinner, Ernst (1964). Geschichte und Bibliographie der astronomischen Literatur in Deutschland zur Zeit der Renaissance. Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann, p. 7ff. (List of all known publications and reprintings of Regiomontanus' tracts, together with some interesting text putting Regiomontanus into context for his time period.)
———(1990). Regiomontanus: His Life and Work, translated by Ezra Brown. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publications. (The most extensive biography of Regiomontanus, recently translated from German to English.)
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Green, D.W.E. (2007). Müller, Johann. In: Hockey, T., et al. The Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-30400-7_990
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