Lucas Brunn

Lucas Brunn (* around 1572 in Annaberg ; † January 1, 1628 in Dresden ) was a German mathematician.

Live and act

Lucas Brunn: Drawing of an Instrument to Represent the Perspective, 1615

He was first mentioned in a document in his hometown in 1610. Brunn studied at the University of Altdorf and obtained his master's degree in 1610. Then he became a mathematics professor in Wittenberg . In 1612 he went to Nuremberg, where he helped the flat and etching painter Johann Hauer in handling his camera obscura . On June 4, 1613, he wrote a letter to Johannes Kepler , who knew best about the camera. In 1615, Brunn's textbook on perspective was published.

In 1620 he was appointed to Dresden as an art treasurer. Here, among other things, he constructed a micrometer slide for precision angle measurements.

Fonts

Practice Perspectivae That is: A detailed report of distortions: in it that which the Scenographi requires / embraces / and in which all kinds of things and all kinds of things to bring into perspective is taught / also that which can / is explained / to all wondrously hereby those so minded ... to devote themselves to mathematical arts ... presented / and ... made in the German language by Lucas Brunnen / De Monte Sanct. Annae. Halbmayer, Nuremberg, Leipzig 1615.
EUCLID. Elementa practica, or extract of all problematic and handicrafts from Euclidi's 15th books. All and each of the age-old geometrical useful uses of the circle of lovers too well presented in German language by M. Luc. Well. Halbmayer, Nuremberg 1625.
Mnemonic. no year

literature

Ernst Zinner: Brunn, Lukas. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 681 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Lucas Brunn in the Stadtwiki Dresden

Individual evidence

^ Uta Lindgren: Astronomical Instruments . In: Werner Paravicini (ed.), Jan Hirschbiegel and Jörg Wettlaufer (arrangement): Courtyards and residences in the late medieval empire. Images and terms. Residency research 15 II, volume 1 + 2. Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2005

personal data
SURNAME	Brunn, Lucas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH	around 1572
PLACE OF BIRTH	Annaberg
DATE OF DEATH	January 1, 1628
Place of death	Dresden

[1] Uta Lindgren: Astronomical Instruments . In: Werner Paravicini (ed.), Jan Hirschbiegel and Jörg Wettlaufer (arrangement): Courtyards and residences in the late medieval empire. Images and terms. Residency research 15 II, volume 1 + 2. Thorbecke, Ostfildern 2005