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11 de ago. de 2014 · On September 26, 1679, a fierce fire consumed the Stellaburgum — Europe’s finest observatory, built by the pioneering astronomer Johannes Hevelius (January 28, 1611–January 28, 1687) in the city of Danzig, present-day Poland, decades before the famous Royal Greenwich Observatory and Paris Observatory existed.
27 de dic. de 2018 · But Johannes Hevelius cannot take all of the credit for this work. His wife Elisabeth holds her own place in the history of astronomy. Born the same year as the publication of Selenographia, ...
11 de jun. de 2018 · Hevelius, Johannes. ( b. Danzig [now Gdańsk], Poland, 28 January 1611; d. Danzig, 28 January 1687) astronomy, instrument making. Hevelius (also known as Heweliusza, Hevel, or Hewelcke) was one of at least ten children of a prosperous brewer and property owner. Between 1618 and 1624 he was educated at a Gymnasium in Danzig; and when it was ...
Johannes Hevelius died on 28 January 1687, on his 76 th birthday. He was buried in St Catherine’s Church in Gdańsk. After the death of Hevelius, Elisabeth published three more works based on the collected materials. Elisabeth dedicated one of them – ‘Firmamentum Sobiescianum’ – to King John III Sobieski and signed it ‘Elisabeth ...
Johannes Hevelius nació el 28 de enero de 1611 en Gdansk, Polonia. Estudió derecho en Leiden en 1630 y, más tarde, pasó varios años, de 1632 a 1643, viajando entre Suiza, Londres y Páris. En la capital de Francia entró en contacto con varios astrónomos incluyendo a Pierre Gassendi.
At the age of nineteen, in 1630, Hevelius boarded a ship bound for Holland. He was off to study law at the University of Leyden, but his fascination with astronomy was enhanced when an eclipse of the sun occurred while he was on board the ship. His observations would form part of a publication later in his life.
Johannes Hevelius1611-1687 German Astronomer Johannes Hevelius was the last astronomer of repute to carry out major observational work without a telescope. Though he rejected the use of telescopic sights for stellar observations and positional measurements, he did use telescopes to produce accurate maps of the Moon and is considered the father of lunar topography.
