Afterwards, aided by Otto of Ziegenhain, the Archbishop of Trier, Nikolaus entered the University of Cologne in 1425 as “a doctor of canon law” which it appears he both taught and practiced there. He studied Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and, in later years, also Arabic though he was not a lover of rhetoric and poetry. It was in Padua that Nicholas learnt about the latest developments in mathematics and astronomy and, twenty years later, Nicholas dedicated two of his mathematical works to Toscanelli. In Padua, he met made friends with the mathematician Paolo dal Pozzo Toscanelli, afterwards a celebrated physician and scientist. He seemed to have left Heidelberg soon afterwards, as he received his doctorate in canon law from the University of Padua in 1423. Nikolaus entered the Faculty of Arts of the Heidelberg University in 1416 as “a cleric of the Diocese of Trier”, studying the liberal arts. Heidelberg, Padua, and Cologne University Of his early education in a school of Deventer in the Netherlands nothing is known. The legend that Nicholas fled from the ill-treatment of his father to Count Ulrich of Mandersheid is doubtfully reported (the story being that Nicholas was only interested in books and annoyed his father by being unable to handle an oar), and has never been proved. Nikolaus was one of his parents’ four children. ![]() His father, Johann Cryfts (Krebs) was a wealthy boatman. Nikolaus of Cusa or Kues (latinized as “Cusa”), was born at Cues, today’s Bernkastel-Kues, on the river Moselle, in the Archdiocese of Trier at about 1400 or 1401. Nikolaus of Cusa, De Docta Ignorantia (On Learned Ignorance) (1440) Nikolaus of Cusa – Childhood and Legend “In God, absolute unity is absolute multiplicity, absolute identity is absolute diversity absolute actuality is absolute potentiality.” the trial of squaring the circle or calculating the circumference of a circle from its radius. His best known work is entiteled ‘ De Docta Ignorantia‘ ( Of the Learned Ignorance), where also most of his mathematical ideas were developed, as e.g. ![]() ![]() He is considered as one of the first German proponents of Renaissance humanism. On August 11, 1464, German philosopher, theologian, jurist, and astronomer Nikolaus of Cusa (in latin: Nicolaus Cusanus) passed away.
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