Johann Wilhelm Camerer

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Family grave of the Camerer family at the Fangelsbach cemetery in Stuttgart

Johann Wilhelm Camerer , later von Camerer , (born February 27, 1763 in Ohnastetten , † March 31, 1847 in Stuttgart ) was a German Protestant theologian, mathematician, astronomer and mathematician.

Life

After studying theology, he was vicar in Dußlingen , from 1800 a deacon at St. Leonhard's Church in Stuttgart and later a prelate. In addition, he devoted himself to the history of mathematics, mathematics and astronomy. He was later a mathematics teacher at the Stuttgart grammar school and from 1821 its director.

In 1797 Camerer was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . Since 1809 he was also a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

He received the order of the Württemberg crown and was ennobled with it.

Camerer found his final resting place in the family grave at the Fangelsbach cemetery in Stuttgart .

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In 1824/25 he and Karl Friedrich Hauber published a Latin-Greek edition of the first six books of the elements of Euclid , which is based on the Greek text of the manuscript Vaticanus Graecus 190 published by François Peyrard (but also on the editions in Oxford 1703 ( David Gregory ) and Basel 1533).

It contains extensive commentaries from authors from various centuries and is therefore highly praised by Thomas Heath . Among the commentators are excerpts from Proclus , Pappos of Alexandria , Christophorus Clavius , Federigo Commandino , Niccolò Tartaglia , Jacques Peletier , Robert Simson , John Playfair , Isaac Barrow , John Wallis , André Tacquet , Giovanni Alfonso Borelli , William Austin .

He also published what is known about De Tactionibus (About Touches) by Apollonios of Perge, known only from the writings of Pappos of Alexandria , the passages of Pappos, a reconstruction of his own and that of François Viète . He also presents the history of the Apollonian problem dealt with therein . He also translated Robert Simson's lectures on conic sections .

He published much about astronomy in Bode's yearbooks and Zach's monthly correspondence.

Fonts

  • Hauberk publisher: Euclidis elementorum libri sex priores. Graece et latinos commentario et scriptis veterum ac recentiorum mathematicorum et Pfleidereri maxime illustrati, 2 volumes, Berlin: Reimer 1824, 1825
  • Johannes Brenz , the Württemberg reformer, 1840
  • Apollonii de tactionibus quae supersunt ac maxime lemmata Pappi in hos libros graece nunc primum edita cum Vietae librorum Apolloniae restitutione, adiectis observationibus, computationibus ac problematis Apolloniani historia, Gotha 1796
  • Robert Simson's three first books on conic sections translated and edited with additions by Johann Wilhelm Camerer, Tübingen 1809

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 55.
  2. ^ Member entry of Johann Wilhelm von Camerer at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on January 10, 2017.
  3. ^ Heath The thirteen books of Euclids Elements , Cambridge 1908, Volume 1, p. 103
  4. ^ An examination of the first six books of Euclid's elements, London 1781
personal data
SURNAME Camerer, Johann Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Camerer, Johann Wilhelm von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian, mathematician, astronomer and mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH February 27, 1763
PLACE OF BIRTH Ohnastetten
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1847
Place of death Stuttgart