Reimarus Ursus

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Reimarus Ursus (Nicolaus Reimers Bär) (1551–1600) was an astronomer and imperial mathematician to Rudolf II. Ursus was a bitter rival of Tycho Brahe (his successor as imperial mathematician) after he tried to claim the Tychonic system as his own. Johannes Kepler committed a faux paus early in his career by sending a laudatory letter to Ursus while seeking the patronage of Tycho; Ursus published the letter in the preface to his work claiming priority for Tycho's cosmological ideas.[1]

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  1. ^ Caspar, Max. Kepler. Translated and edited by C. Doris Hellman. New York: Abelard-Schuman, 1959.
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