Johann Lantz
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Johann Lantz or Lanz (1564 – 20 September 1638) was a German mathematician and Jesuit.[1][2]
Biography
Born in Tettnang on Lake Constance in 1564, he was admitted as novice in Landsberg in 1589.[1] He became a professor of Hebrew at the University of Ingolstadt. After 1609-1610 he left his place to his pupil Christoph Scheiner[2] and moved to the University of Munich.[1] He died in Munich in 1638. He wrote several works on mathematics. He analyzed the four genres of numbers, then the astronomic fractions.[1] He is remembered also by Mario Bettini in his Aerarium philosophiae mathematicae (1648).[1][3][4]
Works
- Lantz, Johann (1619). Institutionum arithmeticarum libri quatuor (in Latina). Monachii: Nikolaus Heinrich.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Luigi Ingaliso (2005). Filosofia e cosmologia in Christoph Scheiner (in italiano). Rubbettino Editore. p. 63. ISBN 978-88-498-1258-9.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Mordechai Feingold (2003). Jesuit Science and the Republic of Letters. MIT Press. p. 33. ISBN 978-0-262-06234-3.
- ↑ Mario Bettini (1648). Aerarium philosophiae mathematicae. 2. Bononiae: typis Io. Baptistae Ferronij.
- ↑ Mario Bettini (1648). Aerarium philosophiae mathematicae. 3. Bononiae: typis Io. Baptistae Ferronij.
