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Johannes Stadius

Astronomer, astrologer, mathematician

Died when: 52 years 47 days (625 months)
Star Sign: Taurus

 

Johannes Stadius

Johannes Stadius or Estadius (Dutch: Jan Van Ostaeyen;French: Jean Stade) (ca. 1 May 1527 – 17 June 1579), was a Flemish astronomer, astrologer, and mathematician.

He was one of the important late 16th-century makers of ephemerides, which gave the positions of astronomical objects in the sky at a given time or times.


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