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Title copper from Beutel Tobias Arboretum Mathematicum , 1671

Tobias Beutel (* around 1627; † July 28, 1690 in Dresden ) was a German mathematician , astronomer and electoral secretary in Dresden. On June 21, 1658 he became an art treasurer , ie he was given supervision of the art chamber of the Saxon electors. He died in Dresden in 1690 as an "emeritus".

After the death of his assistant and successor Conrad Conradi in December of the same year, his nephew Tobias Beutel the Younger took over the supervision of the Kunstkammer and later the cabinet of mathematical and physical instruments until he died in 1739.

Bags wrote a number of writings on mathematics and astronomy, some of which were reprinted several times. His arithmetic had eight editions by 1735, and his geometrical pleasure garden was also published in 1737 in its eighth edition. In it, Beutel deals with geometry and stereometry based on Euclid . The book also contains instructions for field measurement and is enriched with many examples. Bag's other writings refer to astronomical events and also include popular theological-astrological interpretations. His Chur-Fürstlicher Sächsischer, always green, high cedar forest / Auf dem green Rauten-Grund is a bilingual description of the Dresden Kunstkammer in German and Latin.

Despite his extensive knowledge, he could not get used to the Copernican view of the world and believed that the sun revolved around the earth, because he had calculated what a tremendous speed the earth would have to reach in order to be able to orbit the sun - no grass could do it grow and people would be very shaken both in their camps and in their workshops.

Works

  • Renewed hand booklet of useful and beautiful arithmetic art , Leipzig: Scheibe, 1658
  • Geometric pleasure garden: Inside the noble and highly useful fine art Geometria Planted from the Euclide , Leipzig: Riese, 1660
  • Newly published Arithmetica, or very useful and beautiful arithmetic art: With short rules / and exemplis, After the Practica, which is described in detail here / Beside the Coß / or Algebra ... Sambt description of the visor rods , Leipzig: disc, [1663]
  • Admirabilia In Aere Et Aethere Or abbreviated description of The Wonderful Wercke Gottes So used to move In the air / and in the starry sky: by the instigation of the Comet published / and observed in Decembri Anno 1664 , Leipzig: Schneider, 1665
  • Mathematical main ornament / and wild thistle and Neßel bushes: In the instruction of righteous mathematical arts / and spreading of the wild stripes / with against it sprinkling mathematical gold roses / Auff a manufactured art altar to the Recreation Bey decision and exits bißhero described Cometen , Leipzig: Schneider, 1665
  • Arboretum Mathematicum: Inside to be: Heavenly figures and birth hours / High heads / Also excluded dark sweetness / Sun, moon and star clocks / Astrologia, Themata, and correctly calculated Longitudines & Latitudines of the cities of the Electorate of Saxony / and neighboring countries , Dreßden: Bergen, 1669
  • Chur-Princely Saxon, always green, high cedar forest / On the green Rauten-Grund Or Kurtze presentation / The Chur-Fürstl. Saxon. Hohen Regal-Wercke / Nehmlich: The excellent art chamber ... highly esteemed incomparably important things / all here at the resident Dreßden , Dreßden: printed by the Bergische Erben, 1671
  • Newly improved daily manual and travel booklet: which includes several beautiful, devout morning-table-evening-travel-church-festival-prayer and chants , [Leipzig]: Thorhell, 1674
  • Cimelium Geographicum Tripartitum, or Dreyfach Geographisches Gemod: This includes I. Correctly searched and composed Longitudines and Latitudines of all large and small cities / ... II. Milliographia, or mile description / ... Dabey a strange Rosetum Geographicum, or Geographical Rose Garden / III. Seminarium Geographicum, Geographical Plant Garden , Dresden: Printed by the Churfl. Saxon. widowed court printer, 1680
  • Kurtze Reductiones As Reichsthaler to Gülden / and Gülden to Reichsthaler: Item brief interest bill ... As well as bill for all kinds of truths / those with penny / groschen to buy Reichsthaler , [Leipzig]: Thorhell, [1682]
  • Reductiones Mensurarum, or: comparison of the dimensions Not only the bushel and other grain dimensions Through most of the cities and areas of the Chur-Fürstenthumbs Saxony and more places:: But also country, field, ruthenium and foot, same drink Eymer- and Kannen-Maaß , Dresden: Melchior Bergens Witbe and Erben, 1683

literature

  • Jürgen Helfricht : Astronomical history of Dresden . - Hellerau-Verlag, Dresden 2001, ISBN 3-910184-76-6
  • Jürgen Helfricht : History of Astronomy in Dresden . - Published by the public observatory Adolph Diesterweg, Radebeul 1987
  • Jürgen Helfricht : Tobias Beutel - Saxon astronomer, treasurer, mathematician and cartographer of the 17th century (around 1627 - 1690) In: Contributions to the history of astronomy in Germany, No. 21 Berlin 1989, pp. 5–27
  • J. Classen :: 15 comet leaflets from the 17th and 18th centuries, publications by the Pulsnitz observatory no. 11. (also in Die Sterne 52 (1976)).
  • Counting, measuring, calculating Petersberg, Michael Imhof, 2008. p. 93.
  • Moritz Cantor :  Bag, Tobias . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1875, p. 587 f.

Footnotes

  1. ^ Viktor Hantzsch : Contributions to the older history of the electoral art chamber in Dresden. In: Hubert Ermisch (Hrsg.): New archive for Saxon history and antiquity . 23rd volume, Wilhelm Baensch, Dresden 1902, pp. 220-296, here p. 283 ff.
  2. ↑ Cimelium geographicum tripartitum or Dreyfach Geographical Gem ... p. 236

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personal data
SURNAME Bag, Tobias
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mathematician and Saxon art treasurer
DATE OF BIRTH around 1627
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 1690
Place of death Dresden