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Born Stettin (Szczecin, Poland), 1596
Died Danzig (Gdańsk, Poland), 1660
Laurentius Eichstadius was an astrologer and ephemeris writer. Only a little is known about the life of Eichstadius. In his works, he declared himself to be not only a doctor of medicine, an ordinary civic health officer in the city of Szczecin in Pomerania (then German), but also an Iatro Physicus, a doctor involved in astrology. For an unknown length of time, Eichstad was professor of medicine and mathematics in Danzig.
Eichstad’s initial shorter writings began to appear in 1622 and involved astrological subjects: the great conjunctions between Jupiter and Saturn along with their astrological consequences, astrometeorological forecasts for 1630–1633, and a defense of astrology against the reproach of being a form of forbidden magic, an issue that was frequently discussed at the time. If these brief works had not stood out from the published masses of astrological material,...
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Eichstad, Lorenz (1634–1644): Pars prima ephemeridum novarum coelestium [et pars altera et tertia, for 1636–1660]. Stettin: Rhete
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Hamel, J. (2014). Eichstad, Lorenz. In: Hockey, T., et al. Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_401
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