Editing Regiomontanus (section)

==Legacy==
[[Simon Stevin]], in his book describing [[decimal representation]] of [[fraction (mathematics)|fraction]]s ([[De Thiende]]), cites the trigonometric tables of Regiomontanus as suggestive of [[positional notation]].<ref>[[E. J. Dijksterhuis]] (1970) ''Simon Stevin: Science in the Netherlands around 1600'', pages 17–19, [[Martinus Nijhoff Publishers]], Dutch original 1943</ref>

Regiomontanus designed his own [[Astrological houses#Regiomontanus|astrological house system]], which became one of the most popular systems in Europe.<ref name="Lewis2003">{{cite book |last=Lewis |first=James R. |title=The Astrology Book: The Encyclopedia of Heavenly Influences|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lmv4930JbY0C&pg=PA574|access-date=4 August 2012|date=1 March 2003|publisher=[[Visible Ink Press]]|isbn=978-1-57859-144-2|pages=574}}</ref>

In 1561, [[Daniel Santbech]] compiled a collected edition of the works of Regiomontanus, ''De triangulis planis et sphaericis libri quinque'' (first published in 1533) and ''Compositio tabularum sinum recto'', as well as Santbech's own ''Problematum astronomicorum et geometricorum sectiones septem''. It was published in [[Basel]] by [[Henrich Petri]] and [[Petrus Perna]].

There is an image of him in Hartmann Schedel's 1493 ''[[Nuremberg Chronicle]]''. He is holding an [[astrolabe]]. Yet, although there are thirteen illustrations of comets in the ''Chronicle'' (from 471 to 1472), they are stylized, rather than representing the actual objects.{{efn|See [http://www.icq.eps.harvard.edu/DanComet2.gif image].}}

The crater [[Regiomontanus (crater)|Regiomontanus]] on the Moon is named after him.