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Bohemian origin. As a
young boy,
Hevelius was sent to Gądecz (Gondecz)
where he
studied the
Polish language.
Hevelius brewed the
famous Jopen beer, which...
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together with her
husband Johannes Hevelius.
Elisabeth Koopmann (or Kaufmann, German: "merchant") was, like
Hevelius and his
first wife, a
member of a...
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Hevelius is a low-rimmed
lunar impact crater that lies at the
western edge of the Oce**** Procellarum,
named after the
astronomer Johannes Hevelius by...
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unknown to Ptolemy) by
Petrus Plancius (1592, 1597/98 and 1613),
Johannes Hevelius (1690) and
Nicolas Louis de
Lacaille (1763), who
introduced fourteen new...
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illustration of the
constellation ****us (after ****us from Gr**** mythology) from the star
atlas published by the
Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius in 1690...
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about the
astronomical literature until Hevelius decided to make them a
separate constellation in 1687.
Hevelius chose the name
Asterion for the northern...
- star
catalog created by
Johannes Hevelius and
published posthumously by his wife and
research aid
Elisabeth Hevelius in 1690. The
catalog consists of...
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sights with ease; an ****istant was a
great benefit. The
illustration of the
Hevelius instrument to the
right shows how two
persons would use such a ****tant:...
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hemispheres in
stereographic polar projection.
Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius published his
Firmamentum Sobiescianum star
atlas posthumously in 1690...
- 1687 by
Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius. Its name is
Latin for the
astronomical ****tant, an
instrument that
Hevelius made
frequent use of in his observations...
