Selected Works
- Cosmographicus liber, Landshut 1524.
- Ein newe und wolgegründete underweisung aller Kauffmanns Rechnung in dreyen Büchern, mit schönen Regeln und fragstücken begriffen, Ingolstadt 1527. A handbook of commercial arithmetic; depicted in the painting The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the Younger.
- Cosmographiae introductio, cum quibusdam Geometriae ac Astronomiae principiis ad eam rem necessariis, Ingolstadt 1529.
- Ein kurtzer bericht der Observation unnd urtels des jüngst erschinnen Cometen..., Ingolstadt 1532. On his comet observations.
- Quadrans Apiani astronomicus, Ingolstadt 1532. On quadrants.
- Horoscopion Apiani..., Ingolstadt 1533. On sundials.
- Instrument Buch..., Ingolstadt 1533. A scientific book on astronomical instruments in German.
- Instrumentum primi mobilis, Nuremberg 1534. On trigonometry, contains sine tables.
- Astronomicum Caesareum, Ingolstadt 1540.
Read more about this topic: Petrus Apianus
Famous quotes containing the words selected and/or works:
“The best history is but like the art of Rembrandt; it casts a vivid light on certain selected causes, on those which were best and greatest; it leaves all the rest in shadow and unseen.”
—Walter Bagehot (1826–1877)
“Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)