Johann Christoph Heilbronner (13 March 1706, in

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– 17 January 1745 (or c.1747), in

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mathematical historian (''Mathematikhistoriker'') and

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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'' ('', '')".

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* 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, another branch ...

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 Writers from Ulm {{Germany-mathematician-stub