page_title: Achilles Gasser
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Achilles Gasser / Works
caption_attribution_description: English: Title page of the first edition of the De Magnete of Pierre de Maricourt, editor Achilles Gasser.
context_page_description: Achilles Pirmin Gasser was a German physician and astrologer. He is now known as a well-connected humanist scholar, and supporter of both Copernicus and Rheticus.
context_section_description: He prepared the first edition (Augsburg, 1558) of the Epistola de magnete of Pierre de Maricourt.
  Other works include:
  Historiarum et Chronicorum totius mundi epitome (1532)
  Prognosticon (1544) dedicated to Thomas Venatorius
  Edition of the Evangelienbuch of Otfried of Weissenburg. His edition did not appear until 1571, under the name of Matthias Flacius who had taken over.
  Observations on comets
  Gasser belonged with Flacius to the humanist circle around Kaspar von Niedbruck, concerned with the recovery of monastic manuscripts. Others in the group were John Bale, Conrad Gesner, Joris Cassander, Johannes Matalius Metellus, and Cornelius Wauters.
caption: Title page of the De magnete in the 1558 edition by Gasser.
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