Zinner E. Regiomontanus: His Life and Work

North Holland, 1990. — 412 p. — (Studies in the History and Philosophy of Mathematics)The 500th anniversary of Regiomontanus's birth has occasioned this depiction of his life and work. It is the first English translation of Ernst Zinner's monumental biography, plus a number of specially-written supplementary articles which help paint a more comprehensive picture of the current state of knowledge about Regiomontanus. The articles show the high regard in which the biography is still held by the community of scholars doing work on the mathematics of the Renaissance.
Zinner's biography is a mine of information about early printing, astrolabes, tables of eclipses and the world of Henry of Langenstein, Johann of Gmunden, Georg Peuerbach, Cardinal Bessarion, Nicholas of Cusa and the extraordinary itinerant scholar, Johannes Müller of Königsberg — Regiomontanus. His contributions to mathematics are discussed (for example, he may have discovered the fifth and sixth perfect numbers) as well as the mysteries surrounding his life and death.Childhood.
Kinship.
The Leipzig Student Years.
The Vienna Student Years.
The Years of Travel in Italy.
The Years of Travel in Hungary.
The Nuremberg Master Years.
Regiomontanus's Death in Rome.
His Estate.
Likenesses of Regiomontanus.
His Personality and His Goals.
Posterity's Judgment of Regiomontanus.
Scientific Works in the Estates of Regiomontanus and Walther.
Supplements
Introduction (W. Kaunzer).
From Königsberg to Rome (R. Mett).
Regiomontanus and Leipzig (H. Wussing).
Supplements to Zinner's Book (F. Schmeidler).
The Most Recent Results of Research on Regiomontanus (A. Gerl).
Problems of Calendar Reform from Regiomontanus to the Present (K. Reich).
New Results on the Mathematical Activity of Regiomontanus (M. Folkerts).
On Regiomontanus's Arithmetic and Algebra in De triangulis Omnimodis libri quinque (W. Kaunzner).
Supplementary Literature on Regiomontanus.