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.
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