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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.
Calvisius was also a significant astronomer: in his Opus Chronologicum (Leipzig, 1605, 7th ed. 1685) he expounded a system based on the records of nearly 300 eclipses. 
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