Giovanni Bianchini
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Giovanni Bianchini
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Giovanni Bianchini was a professor of mathematics and astronomy at the University of Ferrara and court astrologer of Leonello d'Este. He was an associate of Georg Purbach and Regiomontanus. The letters exchanged with Regiomontanus in 1463–1464 mention works by Bianchini entitled: Primum mobile, Flores almagesti, Compositio instrumenti. Bianchini was the first mathematician in Europe to use decimal positional fractions for his trigonometric tables, at the same time as Al-Kashi in Samarkand. He wa
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Italian professor of mathematics and astronomy
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2006-01-07T01:59:56Z
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2024-09-06T20:51:33Z
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