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Johannes Hevelius - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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AKA Johannes Hewelke ... Hevelius made observations of sunspots, 1642-45, devoted four years to charting the lunar surface, discovered the moon's libration in longitude, and published his results in Selenographia (1647), a work which entitles him to be called the founder of lunar topography.
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Johannes Hevelius (also known as Johannes Hewel or Johann Hewelke, 1611-1687), son of a wealthy Danzig patrician family, was one of the leading astronomers of his time. At first he studied jurisprudence in Leiden, before he took over his father's brewery in Danzig, but soon spent all his time with astronomy.
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He named the craters and was responsible for dubbing flat regions as maria. Hevelius's crater names, however, were supplanted by those of Riccioli. He also prepared a star catalogue at least as accurate as Brahe's.
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Hevelius (Hewelke) studied Law at Leiden in 1630, then spent the years 1632-1643 traveling to Switzerland, London, and Paris, where he came in contact with various astronomers, including Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655). In 1634 he returned to Gdansk to complete his Law studies while working in his family's brewing business.
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Encyclopedia article about Hevelius, Johannes. Information about Hevelius, Johannes in the Columbia Encyclopedia, Computer Desktop Encyclopedia, computing dictionary. ... Hevel; Hevel Shalom; Hevelder; Hevelian halo; Hevelius; Hevelius; Hevelius (crater); Hevelius's parhelia; Hevelius, Johannes; Heveller; Hevelli;
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Johan (or Jan, or Johannes) Hevel (or Hevelke, Hewel, Hewelcke, Höwelcke; latinized Hevelius) was living in Dantzig as a wealthy brewer and city councillor. He built his observatory "Sternenburg" ... Johannes Hevelius biography, Sun Education page, High Altitude Observatory ... Johannes Hevelius Biography (Galileo Project)
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Biography of Johannes Hevelius (BB^Y-1687) ... Among all these forms we have not given the one by which he is today known, namely Johannes Hevelius. Certainly the subject of this biography was the first to use this particular Latin form of his name.
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