Michael Maestlin (1550 to 1631) was a German astronomer and mathematician, best known as the mentor of Johannes Kepler and regarded as one of the most significant astronomers of the period between Copernicus and Kepler. He was born in Göppingen in southern Germany, studied theology at the Tübinger Stift and was a student of Philipp Apian. He became a professor of mathematics first at Heidelberg and then, from 1583 or 1584, at the University of Tübingen, where he taught for 47 years. Of all Kepler's teachers he is recognized as the one with the greatest influence on him. He was also the first to write a decimal approximation of the golden ratio.
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was a German astronomer and mathematician, best known as the mentor of Johannes Kepler
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30 September 1550-26 October 1631
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was a German astronomer and mathematician, best known as the mentor of Johannes Kepler
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He was the first to write a decimal approximation of the Golden ratio.
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was a German astronomer and mathematician, best known as the mentor of Johannes Kepler
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In 1584, Maestlin was appointed Professor of Mathematics at the University of Tübingen.
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