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October 11, 2019. Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers, a German astronomer, was born Oct. 11, 1758. Olbers is known for two asteroids and a paradox. We begin with the asteroids. The first asteroid, Ceres, had been discovered by Giuseppe Piazzi on Jan. 1, 1801. Ceres was tracked for a short while, and then it disappeared behind the Sun.
25 de abr. de 2023 · En 1823, el astrónomo alemán Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers publicó un artículo que planteaba esta cuestión, y a partir de ese momento el problema pasó a denominarse la paradoja de Olbers. La contradicción es la siguiente: si el universo es infinito, cuando se sigue una línea visual en cualquier dirección, esta línea debiera interceptar una estrella en algún momento.
1 de jun. de 2023 · Hace ahora 200 años que Heinrich Olbers se hizo esta pregunta. La paradoja de Olbers se ha discutido desde entonces. Incluso Edgar Allan Poe buscó respuesta a una de las preguntas más hermosas ...
Bremen, 2 March 1840) medicine, astronomy. Olbers was the eighth of the sixteen children of Johann Jürgen Olbers, a Protestant minister. He became interested in astronomy when he was about fourteen, but the Gymnasium in Bremen which he attended was a typical humanistic institution of that time where almost no mathematics or science was taught.
"Heinrich Olbers" published on by null. (1758–1840) German astronomerOlbers, who was born at Arbegen in Germany, was a physician who practiced medicine at Bremen. He became a good amateur astronomer, and converted part of his house into an observatory.
This paradox was discussed in 1823 by the German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers, and its discovery is widely attributed to him. The problem was considered by earlier investigators and can be traced back to Johannes Kepler , who, in 1610, advanced it as an argument against the notion of a limitless universe containing an infinite number of stars.
Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers. 1758-1840. German astronomer and physician who developed a method for calculating cometary orbits. He suggested a theory for why the tails of comets point away from the sun and discovered the second and third known asteroids—Pallas (1802) and Vesta (1807). Astronomers at the time assumed an infinite universe ...
