Eberhard Knobloch

Eberhard Knobloch (born 6 November 1943) is a German historian of science and mathematics.

Since 1976 he is head of the math sections of the Academy edition of the works of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (and later the technical-scientific parts).

He is also director of the Alexander von Humboldt Research Centre of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.

He also dealt with Renaissance technology (such as military engineer Mariano Taccola), the notebooks[1] of Leonhard Euler and Jesuit scholars like Christopher Clavius.

Knobloch assisted the Dieter Lelgemann surveyors to decode and interpret the Ptolemy chart with Susudata.