Ihr schlechter Ruf ist legendär: Eine Giftmischerin sei sie gewesen, eine Blutschänderin, intrigant und machtbesessen. Der Romancier Victor Hugo setzte ihr ein wenig schmeichelhaftes literarisches Denkmal. Gaetano Donizetti machte daraus eine Oper.
On May 21, 1471, German painter, engraver, printmaker, mathematician, and theorist Albrecht Dürer was born. He was considered as one of the greatest artists of the Northern Renaissance.
On May 21, 1471, German painter, engraver, printmaker, mathematician, and theorist Albrecht Dürer was born. He was considered as one of the greatest artists of the Northern Renaissance. Aside from painting, he also excelled in prints. Many of his works focused on Roman Catholicism, mostly altarpieces and other related religious art, but he also did numerous self-portraits. Moreover, his works were also backed up by theories, which join concepts in math, idealistic proportions and perspective.
On May 2nd, 1601 (or 1602), German Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher was born. He has published most notably in the fields of oriental studies, geology, and medicine, and has been compared to Leonardo da Vinci for his enormous range of interests. He is regarded as one of the founders of Egyptology for his (mostly fruitless) efforts in deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs, wrote an encyclopedia about China, studied volcanos and fossils, was one of the very first to observe microbes thorough a microscope, and experimented with the laterna magica as a predecessor of photography.
On June 15, 1475, Pope Sixtus IV issued the papal bull 'Ad decorem militantis Ecclesiae' in which he regulated the complex structure of the newly founded Vatican Apostolic Library and appointed Renaissance author Bartolomeo Platina as its first head librarian.
Teil 2 der 'Kurzen Geschichte des Buchdrucks', in der es um Gutenbergs revolutionäre Entwicklungen bzgl. der Drucktechnik geht und diese detailliert erläutert werden...
Teil 3 der "Kurzen Geschichte des Buchdrucks" mit Gutenbergs Meisterstück, der Prachtbibel, die ihm und der Drucktechnik zum Durchbruch verhalf, im Biblionomicon
Nach der Übernahme von Gutenbergs Mainzer Druckereiwerkstatt durch seinen Geschäftspartner Johannes Fust und dessen Gehilfen Peter Schöffer entwickelte sich auch die Druck- und Verfahrenstechnik weiter. Insbesondere Peter Schöffer, der nach der Heirat mit Fusts Tochter Christine zu dessen Schwiegersohn und Partner wurde und die Mainzer Druckwerkstatt nach Fusts Tod 1466 übernahm, zeichnete sich durch die Verfeinerung der typografischen Zierelemente, die Kunstfertigkeit des Metallschnitts und einen verbesserten Rotdruck aus, mit der sich Schöffer von den Arbeiten der Rubrikatoren und Illuminatoren völlig lösen konnte.
On March 31, 1596, French philosopher, mathematician, and writer René Descartes was born. The Cartesian coordinate system is named after him, allowing reference to a point in space as a set of numbers, and allowing algebraic equations to be expressed as geometric shapes in a two-dimensional coordinate system. He is credited as the father of analytical geometry, the bridge between algebra and geometry, crucial to the discovery of infinitesimal calculus and analysis. Descartes was also one of the key figures in the Scientific Revolution and has been described as an example of genius. He has been dubbed the 'Father of Modern Philosophy'. His Meditations on First Philosophy continues to be a standard text at most university philosophy departments.
On March 26, 1516, Swiss naturalist and bibliographer Conrad Gessner was born. His five-volume Historiae animalium (1551–1558) is considered the beginning of modern zoology, and the flowering plant genus Gesneria is named after him. He is considered as one of the most important natural scientists of Switzerland and was sometimes referred to as the 'German Pliny'.
Lichtenberger, Johannes:
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[Augsburg] [ca. 1525]