Johann Christoph Heilbronner (13 March 1706, in

Ulm Ulm () is a city in the German state of Baden-Württemberg, situated on the river Danube on the border with Bavaria. The city, which has an estimated population of more than 126,000 (2018), forms an urban district of its own (german: link=no, ...

– 17 January 1745 (or c.1747), in

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) was a

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mathematical historian (''Mathematikhistoriker'') and

theologian Theology is the systematic study of the nature of the divine and, more broadly, of religious belief. It is taught as an academic discipline, typically in universities and seminaries. It occupies itself with the unique content of analyzing the ...

Literary works

* '' Versuch einer Geschichte der Mathematik and Arithmetik'' (), 1739 * '' Historia matheseos universae a mundo condito ad seculum post Chr. Nat. XVI'' (or ''Historia matheseos universae;'' ), 1742 These two books are the first books that named and used the phrase "''mathematical history'' (''german: Geschichte der Mathematik, la, Historia matheseos'')".

External links

* Heilbronner, Johann Christoph von

Moritz Cantor Moritz Benedikt Cantor (23 August 1829 – 10 April 1920) was a German historian of mathematics. Biography Cantor was born at Mannheim. He came from a Sephardi Jewish family that had emigrated to the Netherlands from Portugal Portugal, off ...

in: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, herausgegeben von der Historischen Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Band 11 (1880), S. 313.

(German) German historians of mathematics 18th-century German Christian theologians 1706 births 1745 deaths German male non-fiction writers 18th-century German writers 18th-century German male writers {{Germany-mathematician-stub