MICHAEL MAESTLIN (1550-1631), professor of mathematics at the University of Tubingen from 1584 until his death, is probably best known as the teacher of Johannes Kepler. As such he has merited more attention from historians than most other sixteenth-century German professors of mathematics. While Maestlin's own achievements (for instance, his correct description of earthshine, his observation and identification of the nova of 1572, and his attempt to determine the orbit of the comet of 1577-1578) have been noted, Kepler's testimony that he learned the Copernican system from Maestlin has meant that attention has been focused on Maestlin's attitude toward the Copernican hypothesis. Central to the ensuing discussion has been the question of whether and how Maestlin taught Copernicus at Tubingen. It is this question, and particularly the light shed on it by such of Maestlin's teaching materials as survive, that forms the subject of this paper.
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机译：MICHAEL MAESTLIN（1550-1631）是图宾根大学（University of Tubingen）的数学教授，从1584年直到他去世，他可能是约翰内斯·开普勒（Johannes Kepler）的老师。因此，与其他16世纪德国数学教授相比，他引起了历史学家的更多关注。尽管注意到了Maestlin自己的成就（例如，他对大地的正确描述，他对1572年新星的观测和鉴定以及他试图确定1577-1578年彗星的轨道），但开普勒作证说他学会了哥白尼Maestlin的体系意味着人们的注意力已经集中在Maestlin对哥白尼假说的态度上。接下来的讨论的中心是Maestlin是否以及如何在Tubingen教授哥白尼的问题。正是这个问题，尤其是Maestlin生存下来的教材所阐明的问题，构成了本文的主题。
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