Marcin Bylica


Marcin Bylica, also known as Marcin of Olkusz (born 1433 in Olkusz, died 1493) - Polish astronomer, astrologer and physician.

Curriculum vitae The son of a bourgeois Jan, a pipeman (custodian of waterworks) of Olkusz. Probably he was a student of the parish school in Olkusz.

Between 1461 and 1466 he visited Italy, where he met Regiomontanus (Johannes Müller), an Austrian astronomer, who together worked out the astronomical tables and Disputationes inter Viennensem et Cracoviens super Cremonensia in planetaryum theoriae deliramenta [Dialogue between the Viennese and the Caucasian Gerard with the Cremona on planetary theory] - criticism of the outdated astronomy textbook. He lectured at the universities of Padua and Bologna. From 1466 he was in Hungary, where he held a professorship at Academia Istropolitana and later at the Academy in Buda.

He has provided the Krakow Academy with astronomical instruments preserved to this day.

In Olkusz there is a street of his name. Creation Bibliography Additional literature

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