About Andreas Albrecht
Lived 1586 – 1628 (aged 41–42). Andreas Albrecht was a German mathematician, engineer, handicrafter, draftsperson and architect.
Zwey Bücher: Das erste von der Ohne und durch die Arithmetica gefundenen Perspectiva, Das andere von dem dazu gehörigen Schatten. (Two books: the first of the Perspectiva ... the other of the corresponding shadow)
Andreas Albrecht (Nuremberg 1586 – Hamburg 1628) was a German mathematician and engineer. Albrecht invented a variety of instruments, some of which are described in his treatises on architecture and perspective: Instrument zur Architectur (Nuremberg, 1622); Eygendliche Beschreibung (Nuremberg, 1625); and Duo Libri. Prior de Perspectiva ... Posterior de umbra ... (Nuremberg, 1625).
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Who was Andreas Albrecht?
German mathematician (1586–1628)
When was Andreas Albrecht born?
Andreas Albrecht was born in 1586 in Nuremberg.
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Andreas Albrecht died in 1628 in Hamburg.
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Andreas Albrecht was a mathematician, engineer, handicrafter, draftsperson and architect.
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Andreas Albrecht was German.
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