Michael Maestlin

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Michael Maestlin (1550-1631) was a German astronomer and mathematician. He was a professor at the University of Tübingen for 47 years. Among his students was Johannes Kepler. Although he primarily taught the Ptolemaic view solar system, he was also one of the first to accept and teach the copernican view. He corresponded with Kepler frequently and played a sizeable part in his adoption of the Copernican system.

In 1582 Maestlin wrote a popular introduction to Astronomy.

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