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Mag. Martini de Żórawica alias "Martinus Rex de Premislia" vocitati Geometriae practicae seu artis mensurationum tractatus: Ad fidem MMS. Biblioth. Jagellonicae Cracoviensis nunc primum editionem curavit, traductionem polonam nec non observationes
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At his death in 1460, his substantial fortune went, in large part, to the University of Cracow, as was his wish. A small sum also went to his brother Florian, a peasant settled in the family village of Żurawica.
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and Bologna, where he lectured on astronomy in 1448. In December 1449, he earned the title doctor of medicine. Shortly thereafter, Król left for Hungary, where he was the court physician to
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According to T. Żebrawskiego c. 1450, L. Birkenmajer believes it could not have been written before 1450. Critical edition,
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Król returned to Cracow probably in the winter of 1450 through the intervention of Zbigniew Oleśnicki and
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On the reform of the calendar. Manuscript copy: Cracow, Biblioteka Jagiellońska, rkp. 1838
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Unlocked Books: Manuscripts of Learned Magic in the Medieval Libraries of Central Europe,
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Materiały i Studia Zakładu Historii Filozofii Starożytnej i Średniowiecznej
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Holograph manuscript copy: Cracow, Biblioteka Jagiellońska, rkp. 1918, 764.
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Marcin Król, son of Stanisław Król, was born around 1422 in Żurawica near
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and began to lecture on mathematics and astronomy. That same year,
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to study the liberal arts in 1438. Six years later, he earned his
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Kuksiewicz, Zdzisław. "Marcin Król z Żurawicy alias z Przemyśla.
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Summa super Tabulas Alphonsi vel Correctiones Tabularum Alphonsi
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247–49. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2008.
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Żurawica
Ruthenian-born
mathematician
astronomer
doctor
Przemyśl
Cracow Academy
Zbigniew Oleśnicki
chancellor
Prague
Leipzig
Padua
John Hunyadi
John Vitéz
Oradea
Jan Długosz
astrology
Georg von Peuerbach
Regiomontanus
bishop of Cracow
Biblioteka Jagiellońska
Ludwik Birkenmajer
holograph
Lwów
Categories
People from Przemyśl
15th-century Polish astronomers
Polish mathematicians
Polish astrologers
15th-century astrologers

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