Michael Mästlin was a German astronomer who was Kepler's teacher and who publicised the Copernican system. He was born in Göppingen in Baden-Württemberg on 30 September 1550 and died in Tübingen on 30 October 1631. He gave the first known decimal approximation of the inverse golden ratio, about 0.6180340, in a 1597 letter to his former student Kepler. He is also credited with being the first to compute the orbit of a comet, although his method was not sound.
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Michael Mästlin was a German astronomer who was Kepler's teacher and who publicised the Copernican system.
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He was the middle child of the family, having an older sister and a younger brother.
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