significant role in influencing his adoption of the Copernican system. Additionally, Maestlin's work is credited with contributing to Galileo Galilei's acceptance of heliocentrism.

The first known calculation of the (inverse) golden ratio as a decimal, approximately 0.6180340, was made by Maestlin in 1597. He included this calculation in a letter to Kepler about the Kepler triangle.

Maestlin was one of the few

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