Giovanni Bianchini

Giovanni Bianchini. In: Luminarium atque planetarum motuum tabulae octoginta quinque

Giovanni Bianchini (* 1410 ; † after 1469; scholarly name: Johannes Blanchinus ) was an Italian astronomer who worked in Ferrara .

He made a living by publishing an astronomical table work based on the Alfonsine Tables , with the help of which the positions of the planets could be calculated. This work, first published in 1458, was reprinted several times after his death up until the 16th century (1495, 1526, 1553, 1575).

The lunar crater Blanchinus was named after him by the IAU in 1935 .

Works

• Tabularum Ioannis Blanchini canones 1495
  • With: Nikolaus Prugener Luminarium atque planetarum motuum tabulae octoginta quinque . Johann Herwagen, Basel 1553

literature

• Ludwig Anton Birkenmajer: Flores Almagesti. An allegedly lost treatise by Giovanni Bianchini, mathematician and astronomer from Ferrara from the XV. Century . Krakow 1911
• G. Boffito: Le tavole astronomiche di Giovanni Bianchini. Da un codice della Coll. Olschki. Florence 1908
• Armin Gerl: Trigonometric-astronomical computing shortly before Copernicus: the correspondence between Regiomontanus-Bianchini. Steiner, Stuttgart 1989
• José Chabás, Bernard R. Goldstein: The astronomical tables of Giovanni Bianchini . Brill, Leiden & Boston 2009
• Lynn Thorndike : Giovanni Bianchini in Paris Manuscripts. In: Scripta Mathematica , Vol. 16, 1950, pp. 5-12 and 169-180
• Lynn Thorndike: Giovanni Bianchini in Italian manuscripts. In: Scripta Mathematica , Vol. 19, 1953, pp. 5-13