Johannes Hevelius (in German also known as Hevel; Polish: Jan Heweliusz; (1611-01-28)28 January 1611 – 28 January 1687) was a councillor and mayor of...

of Hevelius is the crater Lohrmann and the dark-hued Grimaldi. The crater's name was approved by the IAU in 1970. Only a low, eroded rim of Hevelius rises...

unknown to Ptolemy) by Petrus Plancius (1592, 1597/98 and 1613), Johannes Hevelius (1690) and Nicolas Louis de Lacaille (1763), who introduced fourteen...

done together with her husband Johannes Hevelius. Elisabeth Koopmann (or Kaufmann, German: "merchant") was, like Hevelius and his first wife, a member of...

Urania's Mirror, a set of constellation cards published in London c.1825 Johannes Hevelius drew Ursa Major as if being viewed from outside the celestial sphere...

famous scholars. In 1647, Johannes Hevelius produced the rival work Selenographia, which was the first lunar atlas. Hevelius ignored the nomenclature of...

in 1687 by Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius. Its name is Latin for the astronomical sextant, an instrument that Hevelius made frequent use of in his...

Cain and Abel Hector Hevel (born 1996), Dutch footballer Johannes Hevel or Johannes Hevelius (1611–1687), Polish astronomer and politician Jules Van Hevel...

lens so needs to have a very high focal ratio to reduce aberrations (Johannes Hevelius built an unwieldy f/225 telescope with a 200-millimetre (8 in) objective...

as Johannes Hevelius, the astronomer. After Hevelius had returned to Danzig in 1634, the dying Crüger appealed to him to pursue astronomy. Hevelius gratefully...

Latin for shield, and it was originally named Scutum Sobiescianum by Johannes Hevelius in 1684. Located just south of the celestial equator, its four brightest...

work by Johannes Hevelius. It includes the first detailed map of the Moon, created from Hevelius's personal observations. In his treatise, Hevelius reflected...

separate constellation by classical astronomers; it was designated by Johannes Hevelius in 1687. There are 37 stars brighter than apparent magnitude 6.5 in...

Lynx is the name of a constellation in the northern sky, defined by Johannes Hevelius in 1687. The name is said to have been chosen because the stars which...

his 48 asterisms. Ptolemy catalogued 17 stars, Tycho Brahe 10, and Johannes Hevelius 20. It only became a constellation in ancient Rome, when it began...

pamphlet, the Sevenfold Sun Miracle, and again the following year by Johannes Hevelius in his book, Mercurius in Sole visus Gedani. On 18 June 1790 Johann...

Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (d. 1679) 1611 – Johannes Hevelius, Polish astronomer and politician (d. 1687) 1622 – Adrien Auzout,...

Maenali Mount Mainalo 1690 Johannes Hevelius Musca Borealis /ˈmʌskə bɔːriˈeɪlɪs/ Muscae Borealis Northern Fly 1690 Johannes Hevelius Noctua /ˈnɒktjuə/ Noctuae...

small, faint constellation, it was defined in 1687 by the astronomer Johannes Hevelius. Its brightest stars form a "W" shape similar to that of Cassiopeia...

recorded by the Third Vatican Mythographer. In 1690, the astronomer Johannes Hevelius in his Firmamentum Sobiescianum regarded the constellation Pisces...

in 1672 with a telescope 35 feet (11 m) long. Astronomers such as Johannes Hevelius were constructing telescopes with focal lengths as long as 150 feet...

orbital position. The lunar libration in longitude was discovered by Johannes Hevelius in 1648. It can reach 7°54′ in amplitude. Longitudinal libration allows...

Helmholtz, physicist Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857–1894), physicist Johannes Hevelius (1611–1687), astronomer David Hilbert (1862–1943), mathematician Magnus...

hemispheres in stereographic polar projection. Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius published his Firmamentum Sobiescianum star atlas posthumously in...

part of what is now Puppis. It was not adopted in the atlases of Johannes Hevelius, John Flamsteed and Johann Bode and fell into disuse. Obsolete constellations...

was searching for a nebula that had been reported in the area by Johannes Hevelius. Not seeing any nebulae, Messier catalogued this apparent pair instead...

difference between them causes an overall magnification or reduction. Johannes Hevelius described an early periscope (which he called a "polemoscope") with...

complex displays were those of Christoph Scheiner in Rome (c. 1630), Johannes Hevelius in Danzig (1661), and Tobias Lowitz in St Petersburg (c. 1794). Chinese...

constellation from Firmamentum Sobiescianum sive Uranographia (1690) by Johannes Hevelius. Icke's "reptoid hypothesis" posits that humanity is ruled by descendants...

Johannes Hevelius drew the Orion constellation in Uranographia, his celestial catalogue in 1690...