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	Gemma_Frisius biography
		Gemma's edition contained very few changes to the original text, but Gemma had made some alterations to some of the maps, particularly to 'America'.
		Gemma showed 'America' as two disconnected continents with the one south of the equator being named America while the one to the north of the equator was left without a name.
		Gemma Frisius died of 'stones' at the age of forty-seven.
	www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk /history/Biographies/Gemma_Frisius.html (1800 words)

	Gemma Frisius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gemma Frisius (or Reiner Gemma, December 9, 1508 - May 25, 1555) was a mathematician, cartographer and instrument maker.
		Frisius created or improved many instruments, including the cross-staff, the astrolabe and the astronomical rings.
		Regnier Gemma Frisius from University of St Andrews School of Mathematics and Statistics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gemma_Frisius (255 words)

	Gemma Frisius (crater) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gemma Frisius is a lunar crater that is located in the rugged southern highlands of the Moon.
		It lies to the north of the Maurolycus walled-plain, and southeast of the smaller Poisson crater.
		The remainder of the floor is relatively level and deep, with a central peak that is offset to the northwest of the mid-point.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gemma_Frisius_(crater) (254 words)

	The Saphea Arzachelis
		In order to overcome these shortcomings, Gemma Frisius designed an instrument that had an ordinary astrolabe on one side and adopted a form of astrolabe that can be used at any latitude for the other side and included a magnetic compass in the throne.
		As Henri Michel put it, "The "Astrolabum Catholicum" was definitely not Gemma Frisius' invention and, with the typical lack of concern of the time, the learned cosmographer 'forgot' to say that this instrument had been contrived five centuries earlier".
		Gemma Frisius was a professor of medicine in Louvain who apparently became interested in astronomy and astronomical instruments through the astrological aspects of medicine as it was practiced at that time.
	www.astrolabes.org /SAPHEA.HTM (2124 words)

	Gemma_Frisius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Regnier Gemma Frisius was a native of Friesland, a coastal province in northern Netherlands, which explains why he gave himself the name of Frisius.
		Gemma showed 'America' as two disconnected continents with the one south of the equator being named America while the one to the north of the equator was left without a name.
		Gemma Frisius died of 'stones' at the age of forty-seven.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Mathematicians/Gemma_Frisius.html (1806 words)

	K.U.Leuven Research & Development
		Gemma Frisius Fund K.U.Leuven (GFF) is a seed capital fund, established in 1997 as a joint venture between K.U.Leuven, the KBC Group and the Fortis Group.
		The companies in which Gemma Frisius Fund I and II have invested can be found in the list of active K.U.Leuven spin-off companies in which GFF has invested.
		Gemma Frisius was educated at the K.U.Leuven, receiving a medical degree.
	www.kuleuven.be /lrd/services/gemma_what.html (656 words)

	Gemma Frisius Summary
		Gemma Frisius (or Reiner Gemma, December 9, 1508 - May 25, 1555) was a mathematician, cartographer and instrument maker.
		Frisius created or improved many instruments, including the cross-staff, the astrolabe and the astronomical rings.
		Regnier Gemma Frisius from University of St Andrews School of Mathematics and Statistics.
	www.bookrags.com /Gemma_Frisius (412 words)

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		Gemma Frisius (also Gemma Reiner, Regner or Regnier) was born in Dokkum in Friesland (hence "Frisius") in the modern-day Netherlands in 1508.
		Although Gemma is most remembered for his contributions to instrument making and cosmography, his formal training and occupation in medicine demonstrates the fact that most mathematical cosmography was practiced outside the institutional university context.
		Like Apian, Gemma was patronized by the Emperor Charles V. Gemma Frisius died in 1555 at the age of 47 in Louvain.
	www.mhs.ox.ac.uk /students/98to99/Intro/Intropgs/Bios.html (532 words)

	Mercator Terrestrial Floor Globe - Reproduction Globe
		Realising that Mercator wanted to learn mathematics to apply it to cosmography, Gemma Frisius gave him advice on the best route into learning the mathematics he needed to know, giving him books to study at home.
		The geographical work was mainly due to Gemma Frisius while Mercator's role was that of an engraver.
		In 1537 Mercator, working with Van der Heyden and with Gemma Frisius, constructed a globe of the stars.
	www.1worldglobes.com /1WorldGlobes/GLAM/glam002w.htm (2540 words)

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