21 Facts About Albert Brudzewski

Albert Brudzewski was an influential teacher to Nicolaus Copernicus, who initiated the Copernican Revolution.

Albert Brudzewski matriculated at the Krakow Academy, where he earned his bachelor degree in 1470 and a master in 1474.

Albert Brudzewski was well versed in Georg von Peuerbach's Theoricae novae planetarum and Regiomontanus' Tabulae directionum and Ephemerides.

Albert Brudzewski drew up tables for calculating the positions of heavenly bodies.

Albert Brudzewski considered that the motion of the planets was influenced by the Sun as their source of power.

Everything created by the keen perceptions of Euclides and Ptolemaeus, [Albert Brudzewski] made a part of his intellectual property.

Albert Brudzewski lectured on arithmetic, optics, Peuerbach astronomy and Mashallah ibn Athari works.

Albert Brudzewski was seen as influential and persuasive astronomer, a fictionalist, and an opponent of Middle Ages Andalusian scholar Averroes.

Albert Brudzewski believed that Ptolemy's devices and principles disobeyed the fundamental principles and basic consequences of Aristotelian physics.

Albert Brudzewski believed that the creation of all celestial beings had to arise from the stars, but the ninth sphere did not possess any stars, so this could not be true.

Albert Brudzewski argued with this and said that the heavens possessed more than ten spheres.

Albert Brudzewski believed that the Sun itself had three spheres and the planets had their own as well.

Albert Brudzewski said that Aristotle demonstrated and verified five claims about the heavens that could disprove Averroes.

Albert Brudzewski gave these three motions to the last three spheres respectively.

Albert Brudzewski did not think that the motions of the heavens were understood by any human.

Albert Brudzewski claimed that no mortal knows whether eccentrics truly exist in the spheres of the planets, but spirits could give humans revelations about the true planetary motion of the heavens through mathematicians.

Albert Brudzewski acknowledges the existence of these viewpoints but criticized their validity.

Albert Brudzewski made the claim for the fundamental principle of astrology that the heavens exert causal influences on the Earth.

Albert Brudzewski was seen as a source for some of Copernicus's work on orbs, specifically with the Tusi couple.

Some think that Albert Brudzewski is the source for Copernicus's model of the Tusi couple.

Albert Brudzewski was aware of the possibility of linear motions from circular motions based on his model of Mercury's motion.