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| Paper: |
Doctor and Hobby Astronomer in Stormy Times:
The Book Legacy of Dr. Johannes Häringshauser (1603-1642) |
| Volume: |
441, The Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena VI |
| Page: |
543 |
| Authors: |
Davison, G. |
| Abstract: |
Johannes Häringshauser (1603-1941) was born in Vienna and
graduated at Padua in the faculty of medicine in 1626. He became a
Hofmedicus at the court and in the field of the Thirty Years War in
1627-1630 and then a Viertelmedicus at Mistelbach in Niederoesterreich
in 1630 until 1641. His purchase of books had initially concentrated
on medical topics but from 1636 to 1640 he bought some ten books on
astronomy, including two by Johannes Kepler and one by Michael
Mästlin, Kepler’s tutor at Tübingen. The fact that he acquired the
books by Mästlin and Kepler so soon after Galileo’s trial shows him
to have been a courageous independently minded thinker with wide
ranging professional and intellectual interests. In his professional
medical activities he sought to balance the medical practises of Galen
and Paracelsus, and in his astronomy hobby he investigated the the new
arguments of Mästlin, Kepler, and Galileo. |
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