Gellibrand

Gellibrand

Gellibrand, Heinrich, geb. 1597 in London, Pfarrer in Kent, legte aber seine Stelle nieder u. studirte in Oxford Mathematik; er wurde 1627 Professor der Astronomie im Greshamcollegium u. st. 1637. Er gab den zweiten Theil von Briggs Trigonometria britannica heraus u. schrieb: Institutio trigonometrica, 1634 (2. Aufl. 1652 von Leybourn) u. kleine Abhandlungen über die Schifffahrt, den Magneten etc. Als Anhänger des Ptolemäischen Systems suchte er dies gegen das Copernikanische zu vertheidigen.


Pierer's Lexicon. 1857–1865.

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