Helisäus Röslin

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Helisäus Röslin , also Helis (a) eus Rößlin (born January 17, 1545 in Plieningen , † August 14, 1616 in Buchsweiler ) was a German physician, astrologer, chronologist and geographer.

Life

Röslin was born in Plieningen near Stuttgart in 1544 or 1545 . His father was probably the local evangelical pastor. A ducal scholarship enabled him to attend grammar school in Stuttgart before he went to Tübingen in 1561 to study medicine under Samuel Eisenmenger . In 1569 he obtained his doctorate, settled in Pforzheim and founded a medical practice. In 1570 he married Judith Beurlin, the daughter of the theologian Jacob Beurlin . He served as personal physician to Count Palatine Georg Johann I (Pfalz-Veldenz) from 1572 and Johann Reinhard von Hanau-Lichtenberg from 1612 . He was also particularly interested in questions of astrology , chronology and geography . From observations of the supernova 1572 and the comet of 1577 , which he located on the other side of the lunar orbit, contrary to Aristotelian ideas, he concluded that the apocalypse was approaching , which he calculated to occur in 1654. From 1582 he was the city ​​physician of Hagenau , where he lived for the longest time. Around 1588 he met Nicolaus Reimers , known as Ursus , in Strasbourg and argued with him about astronomical questions. Röslin died in Buchsweiler an der Ruhr in 1616 .

Geoheliocentric model

Röslin, who did not consider himself an astronomus , tried to establish his own world model against the theories of Ursus and Kepler . In his book De Opere Dei , published in 1597, he discussed the world systems of Ptolemy , Copernicus , Brahe and Ursus and tried to differentiate himself from them. Based on the fact that no parallax of the fixed stars could be observed in his time , Röslin concluded that the stars in a heliocentric view of the world would have to have an immensely large distance from the planetary orbits, which he considered impossible for physical reasons. Instead, he assumed that the solid crystal spheres mechanically drive the next inner spheres and thus cause the planetary movements. For this reason Röslin held the earth as the center of the finite and limited universe, revolving around the moon and sun, but the sun in turn as the center of the planetary orbits. He imagined the fixed star sphere in constant motion, while he rejected the theory of the earth's own rotation. Unlike Johannes Kepler, he also stuck to the idea of ​​perfect circular paths. His model thus resembles the tychonic worldview .

Works

  • Theoria nova Coelestium , Strasbourg 1578.
  • Opportunity of the Elsaess and the Waßgau mountains bordered against Lorraine [...] , Strasbourg 1593.
  • De opere Dei creationis sui de mundo hypotheses orthodoxae quantumvis paradoxae , Frankfurt 1597.
  • Tractatus meteorologiphysicus , Strasbourg 1597 ( digitized in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania digital library)
  • Judicium or reservation of the New Star in the Serpent Bearer, who appeared on the 2nd of Octobris and was seen for the first time , Strasbourg 1605.
  • Historical, political and astronomical natural discourse of today, the nature, nature and status of Christianity , Strasbourg 1609.
  • Midnight Schiffarth , Oppenheim 1611.
  • Prematurae solis apparitionis in Nova Zembla causa vera , Strasbourg 1612.
  • Prodromus dissertationum chronologicarum ... , Frankfurt 1612.
  • Chronologia primorum Caesarum ante et post natum Christum ab occupata o Pompejo Hierosolyma usque ad ultimam devastationem ejus per Titum Vespasioni filium , Frankfurt 1612.
  • In honor of the Kayserl. Election and coronation Matthiae and Annae. I kays. May. Wife held and performed the 14/24 and 15/25 days of June of the 1612 year in Frankfurt with great solemnity , Frankfurt 1612.
  • Fornemes prognosticon or memorable prophecy, of the excellent and well-known astronomy Mr. D. Helisaei Röslins ... Given in truck after Röslin's death. 1626.

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personal data
SURNAME Roslin, Helisäus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lambert Floridus Plieningerus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medic, astrologer, chronologist and geographer
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1545
PLACE OF BIRTH Plieningen
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 1616
Place of death Buchsweiler