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Jan Heweliusz è stato un astronomo polacco, conosciuto con il nome latinizzato di Johannes Hevelius o, più raramente, quello italianizzato Giovanni Evelio.
Johannes Hevelius (in German also known as Hevel; Polish: Jan Heweliusz; () 28 January 1611 – 28 January 1687) was a councillor and mayor of Danzig , in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
Johannes Hevelius (born Jan. 28, 1611, Gdańsk, Pol.—died Jan. 28, 1687, Gdańsk) was an astronomer who compiled an atlas of the Moon (Selenographia, published 1647) containing one of the earliest detailed maps of its surface as well as names for many of its features.
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Astronomo (Danzica 1611 - ivi 1687), fra i precursori della moderna astronomia di posizione e fondatore della selenografia, avendo per primo applicato il telescopio alla delineazione delle formazioni lunari.
6 ott 2023 · Johannes Hevelius (1611-1687) was a Polish astronomer based in Danzig (Gdańsk). He worked from his own privately funded observatory, creating maps of the Moon's surface, discovering the first variable star, and spotting several new comets.
- Mark Cartwright
- Johannes Hevelius was known for being one of the greatest astronomers of the 17th century. He mapped the Moon, spotted new comets, and observed the...
- Johannes Hevelius discovered four comets, the oscillation of the Moon, and the first variable star, which he called Mira.
- Johannes Hevelius did use telescopes, but he was famous for not using them to track the movements of the heavenly bodies, preferring to use more tr...
Hevelius è considerato come il fondatore della moderna selenografia, avendo per il primo applicato il telescopio alla delineazione delle formazioni lunari.
Indice delle biografie. Studente di giurisprudenza all'Università di Leida, Johannes Hevelius (Hovel) viaggiò in Svizzera, a Londra e Parigi, dove conobbe molti importanti astronomi tra cui Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655).
