page_title: Giovanni Bianchini
hierarchical_section_title: Giovanni Bianchini
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Giovanni Bianchini (Johannes Blanchinus). In Luminarium atque planetarum motuum tabulae octoginta quinque, 1553
context_page_description: Giovanni Bianchini was a professor of mathematics and astronomy at the University of Ferrara and court astrologer of Leonello d'Este. He was an associate of Georg Purbach and Regiomontanus. The letters exchanged with Regiomontanus in 1463–1464 mention works by Bianchini entitled: Primum mobile, Flores almagesti, Compositio instrumenti.
  Bianchini was the first mathematician in Europe to use decimal positional fractions for his trigonometric tables, at the same time as Al-Kashi in Samarkand. In De arithmetica, part of the Flores almagesti, he uses operations with negative numbers and expresses the Law of Signs.
  He was probably the father of the instrument maker Antonio Bianchino.
  The crater Blanchinus on the Moon is named after him.
context_section_description: Giovanni Bianchini (in Latin, Johannes Blanchinus) (1410 – c. 1469) was a professor of mathematics and astronomy at the University of Ferrara and court astrologer of Leonello d'Este. He was an associate of Georg Purbach and Regiomontanus. The letters exchanged with Regiomontanus in 1463–1464 mention works by Bianchini entitled: Primum mobile (astronomical tables included), Flores almagesti, Compositio instrumenti.
  Bianchini was the first mathematician in Europe to use decimal positional fractions for his trigonometric tables, at the same time as Al-Kashi in Samarkand. In De arithmetica, part of the Flores almagesti, he uses operations with negative numbers and expresses the Law of Signs.
  He was probably the father of the instrument maker Antonio Bianchino.
  The crater Blanchinus on the Moon is named after him.
caption: Giovanni Bianchini, in Luminarium atque planetarum motuum tabulae octoginta quinque
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