Johannes Hevelius (1611-1687)
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https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/persinst/38004
- Name (English)
- Johannes Hevelius
- Short name
- Johannes Hevelius
- Year of birth
- 1611
- Year of death
- 1687
- Short Description
- "Johannes Hevelius[note 1][note 2] (in German also known as Hevel; Polish: Jan Heweliusz; (1611-01-28)28 January 1611 – 28 January 1687) was a councillor and mayor of Danzig (Gdańsk), Kingdom of Poland. As an astronomer, he gained a reputation as "the founder of lunar topography", and described ten new constellations, seven of which are still used by astronomers.Cite error: There are <ref group=note> tags on this page, but the references will not show without a {{reflist|group=note}} template (see the help page)." - (en.wikipedia.org 05.11.2019)
- Entity Encoding
- piz
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