Jofrancus Offusius

Historians of science have become interested in Offusius [1][2][3] since he has been identified as the author of a set of annotations appearing on various exemplars of Nicolaus Copernicus's book De Revolutionibus.

His use of Platonic solids to explain features of the solar system has also been of modest interest for historical research.

He presents himself as "German philomath" and shows little respect for established professors (calling them in a preface "asses and sycophants").

John Dee recalls meeting "Offhuysius" sometime in 1552 in Paris where a group of students apparently had formed around him.

De Divina facultate presented an astrological system where the distances to planets are connected with Plato's solids.