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... 26 KB (2,407 words) - 23:17, 26 April 2024 |
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... 7 KB (505 words) - 02:02, 26 January 2024 |
unknown to Ptolemy) by Petrus Plancius (1592, 1597/98 and 1613), Johannes Hevelius (1690) and Nicolas Louis de Lacaille (1763), who introduced fourteen... 50 KB (5,390 words) - 14:40, 11 April 2024 |
famous scholars. In 1647, Johannes Hevelius produced the rival work Selenographia, which was the first lunar atlas. Hevelius ignored the nomenclature of... 25 KB (2,804 words) - 11:40, 2 March 2024 |
Sextans (category Constellations listed by Johannes Hevelius) 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... 15 KB (1,537 words) - 01:19, 27 March 2024 |
Scutum (constellation) (category Constellations listed by Johannes Hevelius) 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... 17 KB (1,474 words) - 04:45, 22 January 2024 |
Cain and Abel Hector Hevel (born 1996), Dutch footballer Johannes Hevel or Johannes Hevelius (1611–1687), Polish astronomer and politician Jules Van Hevel... 559 bytes (102 words) - 16:57, 4 September 2023 |
Leo Minor (category Constellations listed by Johannes Hevelius) separate constellation by classical astronomers; it was designated by Johannes Hevelius in 1687. There are 37 stars brighter than apparent magnitude 6.5 in... 40 KB (3,840 words) - 03:26, 16 March 2024 |
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... 15 KB (1,633 words) - 19:48, 12 December 2023 |
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... 22 KB (2,647 words) - 03:48, 3 April 2024 |
Helmholtz, physicist Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857–1894), physicist Johannes Hevelius (1611–1687), astronomer David Hilbert (1862–1943), mathematician Magnus... 105 KB (11,310 words) - 21:13, 24 April 2024 |
Vulpecula (category Constellations listed by Johannes Hevelius) structures in this region. In the late 17th century, the astronomer Johannes Hevelius created Vulpecula. It was originally known as Vulpecula cum ansere... 14 KB (1,391 words) - 02:08, 26 November 2023 |
Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (d. 1679) 1611 – Johannes Hevelius, Polish astronomer and politician (d. 1687) 1622 – Adrien Auzout,... 55 KB (5,394 words) - 07:18, 18 April 2024 |
Lacerta (category Constellations listed by Johannes Hevelius) 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... 8 KB (730 words) - 15:43, 14 October 2023 |
orbital position. The lunar libration in longitude was discovered by Johannes Hevelius in 1648. It can reach 7°54′ in amplitude. Longitudinal libration allows... 14 KB (1,664 words) - 02:57, 20 April 2024 |
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... 8 KB (772 words) - 18:31, 29 December 2023 |
hemispheres in stereographic polar projection. Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius published his Firmamentum Sobiescianum star atlas posthumously in... 16 KB (1,898 words) - 21:36, 24 February 2024 |
daughter of Danzig mayor Reinhold Curicke (1610-1667), jurist, historian Johannes Hevelius (1611–1687), astronomer. Georg Daniel Schultz (1615–1683), painter... 13 KB (1,320 words) - 05:55, 4 March 2024 |
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... 776 bytes (52 words) - 19:25, 30 July 2023 |
Johannes Hevelius drew the Orion constellation in Uranographia, his celestial catalogue in 1690... 56 KB (7,732 words) - 22:14, 10 February 2024 |