1430-1504 German astronomer who was one of the first to use weight-driven clocks. Walther was a patron of Johann Müller Regiomontanus (1436-1476), and contributed funds toward the building of the latter's observatory in Nuremberg in 1471....

Bernhard Walther (1430 in Memmingen – June 19 1504 in Nuremberg) was a German merchant, humanist and astronomer based in Nuremberg, Germany. The merchant was a man of large means, which he devoted to scientific pursuits. When Regiomontanus settled...