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He was educated at the University of Wittenberg, where he was first elected dean and later became rector. In 1536 he was appointed professor of mathematics by Philipp Melanchthon. Reinhold identified and catalogued a large number of stars.

Duke Albert of Brandenburg Prussia financed the printing of Reinhold's Prutenicae Tabulae, or "Prussian Tables." These astronomical tables helped to disseminate Copernican principle throughout the Empire.

Categories: 1511 births | 1553 deaths | German astronomers

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Erasmus Reinhold - Wikipedia (217 words)
	Reinhold wurde an der Universität Wittenberg ausgebildet und wurde dort auch Rektor.
	Reinhold identifizierte und beschrieb eine große Anzahl von Sternen.
	Von Herzog Albrecht von Brandenburg-Preußen wurde er unterstützt, welcher den Druck der Preußischen Tafeln finanzierte, woher diese ihren Namen erhielten.

Erasmus Reinhold Summary (286 words)
	Reinhold's focus on Copernicus's mathematical modeling and silence regarding the physical reality of heliocentrism—the notion that Earth revolved around the Sun, not vice versa—encouraged a similar attitude in German astronomers that persisted, long after his death from the plague, into the late sixteenth century.
	Erasmus Reinhold (October 22, 1511 – February 19, 1553) was a German astronomer and mathematician.
	Reinhold was a member of the Melanchthon Circle, a group of Lutheran mathematicians associated with Melanchthon who were generally friendly to Copernican astronomy.

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