Julius Reichelt
Julius Reichelt (5 January 1637 – 19 February 1717) was a German mathematician and astronomer who may have set up the first observatory in the city of Strasbourg.
Julius Reichelt
Reichelt, Julius (1637-1719). Cartographe · Bibliothèque nationale de France · Public domain
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- 1637 · Strasbourg.
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- Germany
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- mathematician · astronomer · cartographer · university teacher · council member · geographer
- Education
- University of Strasbourg
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- German
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Julius Reichelt (5 January 1637 – 19 February 1717) was a German mathematician and astronomer who may have set up the first observatory in the city of Strasbourg.
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Julius Reichelt was born on 5 January 1637 in the city of Strasbourg. In 1644 at the age of 16 he was enrolled as a student and graduated as Doctor of Philosophy in 1660. He was nominated as Professor of Mathematics in 1667. Reichelt traveled through Northern Europe some time after 1666 and met other notable 17th-century scientists and thinkers such as Jan Hudde, Johannes Hevelius, Andreas Concius, Henrik Ruse, Johannes Meyer, Rasmus Bartholin, and Adam Olearius. After his return from his trip Reichelt may have proposed the building of the "turret lantern" as an astronomical observatory at the top of Strasbourg's Hospital Gate based on the Rundetårn (Round Tower) he saw in Copenhagen. Reichelt died in Strasbourg on 19 February 1717.
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Aeneis figuris illustrata / [Julius Reichelt]. Recorded as mathematician, astronomer, cartographer, university teacher and council member.
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1637
Julius Reichelt was born in 1637 at Strasbourg.
1676
Exercitatio, de amuletis. Aeneis figuris illustrata / [Julius Reichelt]., dated 1676, held by Wellcome Collection.
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Julius Reichelt died in 1719 at Strasbourg.
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- Jean-Pierre Kintz, « Julius Reichelt », in Nouveau dictionnaire de biographie alsacienne, vol. 30, p. 3128
- Peter H. Meurer : "Die Deutschland-Karte des Strassburger Mathematikers Julius Reichelt (etwa 1680)", Speculum Orbis, volume 2 (1986), pp. 97-102.
- Anna Marie Roos : "‘Magic coins’ and ‘magic squares’: the discovery of astrological sigils in the Oldenburg Letters", Notes Rec. R. Soc., 20 September 2008, vol. 62, no. 3, 271-288 http://rsnr.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/62/3/271.abstract
- The correspondence of Henry Oldenburg, 1986
- Encyclopédie de l'Alsace, 1986, volume 10, page 6295
- Poggendorff : Biographisch-literarisches Handwörterbuch der exakten Wissenschaften, volume 2, Leipzig, 1863, colonne 592
- André. Heck. Astronome à l'Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg. Jean-Pierre. Beck. La Tour de l'Hôpital de Strasbourg : un observatoire astronomique ?. Cahiers alsaciens d'archéologie, d'art et d'histoire. Société pour la Conservation des Monuments Historiques d'Alsace. Strasbourg. 52. LII. 2009. 129-138. 8 février 2013.
- Jean-Marie. Le Minor. Julius Reichelt (1637-1719), mathématicien, astronome, et cartographe strasbourgeois, fondateur du premier observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg (1673). Annuaire de la Société des amis du Vieux Strasbourg. Strasbourg. 34. 2009. 53-72. 05/10/2020.
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