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1 giorno fa · Mappa della Luna di Johannes Hevelius dal suo Selenographia (1647), la prima mappa che include le zone di librazione. Nei tempi antichi non erano rare le culture, prevalentemente nomadi, che ritenevano che la Luna morisse ogni notte, scendendo nel mondo delle ombre; altre culture pensavano che la Luna inseguisse il Sole (o viceversa).
5 giorni fa · The constellation Argo Navis drawn by Johannes Hevelius in 1690 Another motive for studying the sky is to understand and explain the universe . In these cultures myth was a tool for achieving this, and the explanations, while not reflecting the standards of modern science , are cosmologies .
3 giorni fa · Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, [b] or the First Polish Republic, [c] [11] formally known as the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, [d] or simply Poland–Lithuania, was a bi- confederal [12] state, sometimes called a federation, [13] of Poland and Lithuania ruled by a common monarch in ...
5 giorni fa · Aside from being a mayor and councilor in Danzig, Poland, Johannes Hevelius founded Lunar Topography and became the first to describe and name ten kinds of new constellations. Out of those discoveries, astronomers still use 7 constellations as a reference today. Hevelius also published the earliest and most precise maps of the moon.
2 giorni fa · The works of Alhazen were frequently cited during the scientific revolution by Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler, Christiaan Huygens, and Galileo Galilei. Ibn al-Haytham was the first to correctly explain the theory of vision, [14] and to argue that vision occurs in the brain, pointing to observations that it is subjective and affected ...
4 giorni fa · Scopri le meraviglie dell'universo con la Rivista Astronomica Cosmo2050: notizie, scoperte e approfondimenti sull'astronomia e lo spazio
18 mag 2024 · Nicht gelistet sind Teleskope, die nicht funktionierten oder weitab ihrer geplanten Leistung lagen, wie das 45-m-Teleskop von Johannes Hevelius (1645), die Spiegelteleskope von Robert Hooke (1680) und John Michell (1780), der Craig- Refraktor (1852) oder das Multiple Mirror Telescope (1979), das dem Magnum Mirror Telescope vorausging.
