biography
pronunciation:
[heveelius]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1611–87)
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| biography:
| Astronomer, born in Gdansk, N Poland. He studied at Leyden, built his own observatory in Gdańsk, and made his own instruments. He catalogued 1564 stars in Prodromus Astronomiae (1690), discovered four comets, and was one of the first to observe the transit of Mercury. He gave names to many lunar features in his atlas of the Moon, Selenographia (1647). |
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