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Austrian astronomer and mathematician (1514–1576)

Georg Joachim de Porris, also known as Rheticus (; 16 February 1514 – 4 December 1574), was a mathematician, astronomer, cartographer, navigational-instrument maker, medical practitioner, and teacher.

He is perhaps best known for his trigonometric tables and as Nicolaus Copernicus's sole pupil.^[3] He facilitated the publication of his master's De revolutionibus orbium coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres).

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Rheticus was born at Feldkirch in the Archduchy of Austria.

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Both his parents, Georg Iserin and Thomasina de Porris, were of Italian heritage and possessed considerable wealth, his father being the town physician as well as a government official. He was educated by his father until the age of 14 when Georg (Iserin) abused the trust of many of his patients, stealing belongings and money from their homes.

In 1528 he was convicted and executed for his crimes, a