Johann Lantz
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 Munich, where he died in 1638.[1]
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).[3]
Works
- Lantz, Johann (1619). Institutionum arithmeticarum libri quatuor (in Latin). Monachii: Nikolaus Heinrich.
References
- Back to citation occurrence 1.0 Back to citation occurrence 1.1 Back to citation occurrence 1.2 Back to citation occurrence 1.3 Luigi Ingaliso (2005). Filosofia e cosmologia in Christoph Scheiner (in Italian). Rubbettino Editore. p. 63. ISBN 978-88-498-1258-9.
- Back to citation occurrence 2.0 Back to citation occurrence 2.1 Mordechai Feingold (2003). Jesuit Science and the Republic of Letters. MIT Press. p. 33. ISBN 978-0-262-06234-3.
- Back to citation Luigi Ingaliso (2005). Filosofia e cosmologia in Christoph Scheiner (in Italian). Rubbettino Editore. p. 63. ISBN 978-88-498-1258-9; Mario Bettini (1648). Aerarium philosophiae mathematicae. 2. Bononiae: typis Io. Baptistae Ferronij; Mario Bettini (1648). Aerarium philosophiae mathematicae. 3. Bononiae: typis Io. Baptistae Ferronij.