Maria Cunitz

Maria Cunitz (c. 1610 - August 24, 1664), Silesian astronomer, was the eldest daughter of Dr Heinrich Cunitz of Schweinitz, and the wife (1630) of Dr Elias von Löven, of Pitschen in Silesia--both of them men of learning and distinction.

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1610 - August 24 - 1664 - Silesia - Astronomer

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From her universal accomplishments she was called the Silesian Pallas, and the publication of her work, Urania propitia (Oels, 1650), a simplification of the Rudolphine Tables, gained her a European reputation. It was composed at the village of Lugnitz, close by the convent of Olobok (Posen), where, with her husband, she had taken refuge at the outbreak of the Thirty Years' War, and was dedicated to the Emperor Frederick III.

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Rudolphine Tables - Lugnitz - Thirty Years' War - Emperor Frederick III

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The author became a widow in 1661, and died at Pitschen on the 24th of August 1664.

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See AG Kästner, Geschichte der Mathematik, iv. 430 (1800); Nicolaus Henelius, Silesiographia renovata, cap. vi. p. 684; JC Eberti's Schlesiens wohlgelehrtes Frauenzimmer, p. 25 (Breslau, 1727); Allgemeine deutsche Biographie (Schiminelpfenning).

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AG Kästner - Nicolaus Henelius - JC Eberti

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