Dear Reinhold, thank you for this information.
Please advise if you hear of a translation to English or other.
Kind regards,
Thierry vs
50.5N 4.3E
Dear Thierry,
as far as I remember there are links in English language available in the Internet. I think I have seen them two or three years ago. Perhaps a direct contact with the editor of the really very beautiful book "Peter Apian",Karl Röttel will help? After Chris Taylor wrote to me...
>That was a Julian date. In the current Grgorian calendar, I think his birthday would be April 7th. But I wish him a Happy Birthday, whenever.
Regards
Chris<
...I have asked Prof. Scheurer about the correct date and he handed my question over to Mr. Röttel.
He answered:
Es gibt gar kein Geburtsdatum von Peter Apian, also braucht man auch nicht
viel umrechnen. Die genannten Geburtsdatums stammen alle aus irgendwelcher
Literatur; die echte Quelle, auf die sich einst ein Nachfahre Apians berief,
existiert nicht (bzw. heute nicht mehr).
Which means, that the original list of sources got lost. So there would be no need to convert the Julian date :-)
If you want to ask him directly: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anyway: APIAN is a most interesting person with a great work! He had also been pretty clever in economical things and was pretty rich with a lot of different belongings. Only one generation after his decease everything was gone by the wind. But there are still Apian descendants. When I was in Landshut at Burg Trausnitz and asked for permission to stay a bit longer at the sundial, the guide asked me whether I would also be from the Apian - family as only a week before he had guided a group of them.
If you get a good answer concerning English language links of Apian, please let me know. It might be useful for others.
Best
Reinhold
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Reinhold R. Kriegler
Lat: 53° 06' 53'' N
Long: 8° 53' 54" E
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