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Wilhelm Wargentin (Sunne parish, Jämtlands län 11
September 1717 (OS) –
Stockholm 13
December 1783),
Swedish astronomer and demographer.
Wargentin was the...
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Wargentin is an
unusual lunar impact crater which has been
filled to its rim by a
basaltic lava flow,
forming a
raised plateau. When the lava flow occurred...
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Nasmyth to the north. To the
northwest is the
unusual plateau formation of
Wargentin.
Eastward is the
merged formation Schiller, and in the
southwest lies...
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Thebit (55 km)
Theophilus (99 km)
Tycho (85 km)
Vendelinus (141 km)
Wargentin (85 km) List of
lunar features List of
people with
craters of the Moon...
- June 1740
Jacob ****got, 1741–1744 Pehr Elvius, 1744–1749 Pehr
Wilhelm Wargentin, 1749–1783
Johan Carl
Wilcke and
Henrik Nicander, 1784–1796
Daniel Melanderhjelm...
- of the Moon. It is
attached to the
southeast rim of the
flooded crater Wargentin, and the
southern half is
overlain by the
larger Phocylides. The rim of...
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learned men,
including chemist Torbern Bergman and
astronomer Pehr
Wilhelm Wargentin (who
joined somewhat later).
Among their aims was to
start a domestic...
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Schickard Seleucus Stadius Stöfler
Thebit Theophilus Tycho Vendelinus Wargentin List of
craters on the Moon This term was
coined by
Soviet explorers of...
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northeast is the even
smaller Drebbel.
Southwest of
Schickard is
Wargentin, a lava-flooded plateau.
Schickard has a worn rim that is
overlain in...
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second golden era (the
first being the
astronomer Pehr
Wilhelm Wargentin's period as
secretary from 1749 to 1783). He was
elected a
Foreign Honorary...
