biography
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Apianus, Petrus
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originally Peter Bienewitz or Bennewitz
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pronunciation:
[apiahnus]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1495–1552)
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| biography:
| Astronomer and geographer, born in Leisnig, E Germany. In Cosmographia (1524) he proposed determining longitude by measuring distance from the moon. He also observed (in 1531) that a comet's tail is always turned away from the sun. |
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