Home >  Faculty >

Rich Kremer

 

Professor Kremer watching an eclips

Title: Associate Professor of History
Office: 405 Carson Hall
Phone: 646-2228
Departmental Web site: History Department

Medieval and Renaissance Courses Taught

• None currently

Areas of Research Interest

• Late medieval and early modern astronomy
• Early printing

Important and/or Recent and/or Major Publications

• “Calculating with Andreas Aurifaber: A new source for Copernican astronomy in 1540,” Journal for the history of astronomy, 41 (2010), 483-502.
• “War Bernhard Walther, Nürnberger astronomischer Beobachter des 15. Jahrhunderts, auch ein Theoretiker?” In Astronomie in Nürnberg, pp. 156-83. Ed. Gudrun Wolfschmidt. Hamburg: tredition science, 2010.
• “Copernicus, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium.” /Kindlers Literatur-Lexikon/, 3d ed., ix: 302-3. Stuttgart: Metzler, 2009.
• “Kepler and the Graz Calendar Makers: Computational foundations of astrological prognostication.” Studia Copernicana, 42 (2009), 77-100.
• “Physiology.” In The Cambridge history of science, vol. 6, /The modern biological and earth sciences/, pp. 342-66. Ed. Peter J. Bowler and John V. Pickstone. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
• “A time to keep and a time to cast away: Thoughts on acquisitions for university instrument collections.” Rittenhouse, 22 (2008), 188-210.
• “John of Murs, Wenzel Faber and the computation of true syzygy in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.” In Mathematics celestial and terrestrial: Festschrift für Menso Folkerts zum 65. Geburtstag, Acta Historica Leopoldina 54 (2008), 147-60.
• “Abbreviating’ the Alfonsine Tables in Cracow: The Tabulae Aureae of Petrus Gaszowiec (1448).” Journal for the history of astronomy, 38 (2007), 283-304.
• “Copernicus among the astrologers: A preliminary study.” In Astronomy as a model for the sciences in early modern times, pp. 225-52. Ed. Menso Folkerts and Andreas Kühne. Augsburg: Rauner Verlag, 2006.
• “Text to trophy: Shifting representations of Regiomontanus’s library.” In Lost libraries: The destruction of great book collections since antiquity, pp. 75-90. Ed. James Raven. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
• “Thoughts on John of Saxony’s method for finding true syzygy.” Historia mathematica, 30 (2003), 263-77.
• “Wenzel Faber’s table for finding true syzygy.” Centaurus, 45 (2003), 305-29.