This article is about the astronomer. For the ships, see MS Jan Heweliusz and ORP Heweliusz.
Johannes Hevelius
Portrait by Daniel Schultz
Born
(1611-01-28)28 January 1611
Gdańsk (Danzig), Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Died
28 January 1687(1687-01-28) (aged 76),
Gdańsk, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
Alma mater
Leiden University
Known for
Lunar topography
Scientific career
Fields
jurisprudence, astronomy, brewing
Johannes Hevelius[note 1][note 2] (in German also known as Hevel; Polish: Jan Heweliusz; (1611-01-28)28 January 1611 – 28 January 1687)[1] was a councillor and mayor of Gdańsk in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.[2] As an astronomer, he gained a reputation as "the founder of lunar topography",[1] and described ten new constellations, seven of which are still used by astronomers.[3]
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^ abOne or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Clerke, Agnes Mary (1911). "Hevelius, Johann". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 13 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 416–417.
^Robert Bideleux, Ian Jeffries, A History of Eastern Europe: Crisis and Change, Routledge, 1998, p. 124, ISBN 0-415-16112-6 Google Books
^Ian Ridpath. "Star Tales". Retrieved 24 January 2009.
JohannesHevelius (in German also known as Hevel; Polish: Jan Heweliusz; (1611-01-28)28 January 1611 – 28 January 1687) was a councillor and mayor of...
unknown to Ptolemy) by Petrus Plancius (1592, 1597/98 and 1613), JohannesHevelius (1690) and Nicolas Louis de Lacaille (1763), who introduced fourteen...
famous scholars. In 1647, JohannesHevelius produced the rival work Selenographia, which was the first lunar atlas. Hevelius ignored the nomenclature of...
lens so needs to have a very high focal ratio to reduce aberrations (JohannesHevelius built an unwieldy f/225 telescope with a 200-millimetre (8 in) objective...
Urania's Mirror, a set of constellation cards published in London c.1825 JohannesHevelius drew Ursa Major as if being viewed from outside the celestial sphere...
done together with her husband JohannesHevelius. Elisabeth Koopmann (or Kaufmann, German: "merchant") was, like Hevelius and his first wife, a member of...
Cain and Abel Hector Hevel (born 1996), Dutch footballer Johannes Hevel or JohannesHevelius (1611–1687), Polish astronomer and politician Jules Van Hevel...
in 1672 with a telescope 35 feet (11 m) long. Astronomers such as JohannesHevelius were constructing telescopes with focal lengths as long as 150 feet...
Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (d. 1679) 1611 – JohannesHevelius, Polish astronomer and politician (d. 1687) 1622 – Adrien Auzout,...
Helmholtz, physicist Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857–1894), physicist JohannesHevelius (1611–1687), astronomer David Hilbert (1862–1943), mathematician Magnus...
structures in this region. In the late 17th century, the astronomer JohannesHevelius created Vulpecula. It was originally known as Vulpecula cum ansere...
pamphlet, the Sevenfold Sun Miracle, and again the following year by JohannesHevelius in his book, Mercurius in Sole visus Gedani. On 18 June 1790 Johann...
small, faint constellation, it was defined in 1687 by the astronomer JohannesHevelius. Its brightest stars form a "W" shape similar to that of Cassiopeia...
was searching for a nebula that had been reported in the area by JohannesHevelius. Not seeing any nebulae, Messier catalogued this apparent pair instead...
orbital position. The lunar libration in longitude was discovered by JohannesHevelius in 1648. It can reach 7°54′ in amplitude. Longitudinal libration allows...
difference between them causes an overall magnification or reduction. JohannesHevelius described an early periscope (which he called a "polemoscope") with...
Union (IAU). It is a small northern constellation that was created by JohannesHevelius in the 17th century. Its name is Latin for 'hunting dogs', and the...
separate constellation by classical astronomers; it was designated by JohannesHevelius in 1687. There are 37 stars brighter than apparent magnitude 6.5 in...
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