German music theorist, composer, chronologer, astronomer, and teacher
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Sethus Calvisius or Setho Calvisio, originally Seth Kalwitz (21 February 1556 – 24 November 1615), was a German music theorist, composer, chronologer, astronomer, and teacher of the late Renaissance. He was born into a peasant family at Gorsleben in present-day Thuringia. By the exercise of his musical talents he earned money enough for the start, at Helmstedt, of a university career, which the aid of a wealthy patron enabled him to continue at Leipzig. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Sethus
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Chronologia : ex auctoritate potissimum sacrae scripturae, et historicorum fide dignissimorum, ad motum luminarium coelestium, tempora & annos distinguentium, secundum characteres chronologicos contexta & deducta ; Cui praemissa est isagoge chronologica, in qua diversae diversorum, in diversis epochis, annorum quantitates et formae dilucide explicantur, characteres annorum infallibiles ostenduntur, chronologorum errores deteguntur, & quid in unaquaque epocha verum, falsumve sit, ex fundamentis veris chronologicis aperte demonstratur
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