Johannes Hevelius (in German also known as Hevel; Polish: Jan Heweliusz; (1611-01-28)28 January 1611 – 28 January 1687) was a councillor and mayor of...

of Hevelius is the crater Lohrmann and the dark-hued Grimaldi. The crater's name was approved by the IAU in 1970. Only a low, eroded rim of Hevelius rises...

unknown to Ptolemy) by Petrus Plancius (1592, 1597/98 and 1613), Johannes Hevelius (1690) and Nicolas Louis de Lacaille (1763), who introduced fourteen...

Cain and Abel Hector Hevel (born 1996), Dutch footballer Johannes Hevel or Johannes Hevelius (1611–1687), Polish astronomer and politician Jules Van Hevel...

famous scholars. In 1647, Johannes Hevelius produced the rival work Selenographia, which was the first lunar atlas. Hevelius ignored the nomenclature of...

improve the work and observations done together with her husband Johannes Hevelius. Elisabeth Koopmann was a member of a rich merchant family in the...

in 1687 by Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius. Its name is Latin for the astronomical sextant, an instrument that Hevelius made frequent use of in his...

lens so needs to have a very high focal ratio to reduce aberrations (Johannes Hevelius built an unwieldy f/225 telescope with a 200-millimetre (8 in) objective...

Urania's Mirror, a set of constellation cards published in London c.1825 Johannes Hevelius drew Ursa Major as if being viewed from outside the celestial sphere...

Alfonso Borelli, Italian physiologist and physicist (d. 1679) 1611 – Johannes Hevelius, Polish astronomer and politician (d. 1687) 1622 – Adrien Auzout,...

Latin for shield, and it was originally named Scutum Sobiescianum by Johannes Hevelius in 1684. Located just south of the celestial equator, its four brightest...

structures in this region. In the late 17th century, the astronomer Johannes Hevelius created Vulpecula. It was originally known as Vulpecula cum ansere...

small, faint constellation, it was defined in 1687 by the astronomer Johannes Hevelius. Its brightest stars form a "W" shape similar to that of Cassiopeia...

work by Johannes Hevelius. It includes the first detailed map of the Moon, created from Hevelius's personal observations. In his treatise, Hevelius reflected...

was searching for a nebula that had been reported in the area by Johannes Hevelius. Not seeing any nebulae, Messier catalogued this apparent pair instead...

represented on the sky as constellation – Scutum. It was created by Johannes Hevelius in 1684, and originally named it Scutum Sobiescianum (the shield of...

after the Riphean Mountains in the geography of classical antiquity. Johannes Hevelius was the first astronomer to apply the Riphean label to a feature of...

is a star catalog created by Johannes Hevelius and published posthumously by his wife and research aid Elisabeth Hevelius in 1690. The catalog consists...

as Johannes Hevelius, the astronomer. After Hevelius had returned to Danzig in 1634, the dying Crüger appealed to him to pursue astronomy. Hevelius gratefully...

Montis Maenali Mount Mainalo 1690 Johannes Hevelius Musca Borealis Muscae Borealis Northern Fly 1690 Johannes Hevelius Noctua Noctuae Owl 1822 Alexander...

daughter of Danzig mayor Reinhold Curicke (1610-1667), jurist, historian Johannes Hevelius (1611–1687), astronomer. Georg Daniel Schultz (1615–1683), painter...

significant events. The constellation Triangulum Minus is named by Johannes Hevelius. Alida Withoos at the house of Agnes Block makes a painting of the...

Cerberus is an obsolete constellation created by Hevelius in the 17th century, whose stars are now included in the constellation Hercules. It was depicted...

name of the Balkan Mountains. It appeared on the map of Moon due to Johannes Hevelius. But he assigned this name (in the form Mons Æmus) to another feature...

pamphlet, the Sevenfold Sun Miracle, and again the following year by Johannes Hevelius in his book, Mercurius in Sole visus Gedani. On 18 June 1790 Johann...

his 48 asterisms. Ptolemy catalogued 17 stars, Tycho Brahe 10, and Johannes Hevelius 20. It only became a constellation in ancient Rome, when it began...

part of what is now Puppis. It was not adopted in the atlases of Johannes Hevelius, John Flamsteed and Johann Bode and fell into disuse. Obsolete constellations...

Helmholtz, physicist Heinrich Rudolf Hertz (1857–1894), physicist Johannes Hevelius (1611–1687), astronomer David Hilbert (1862–1943), mathematician Magnus...

in 1672 with a telescope 35 feet (11 m) long. Astronomers such as Johannes Hevelius were constructing telescopes with focal lengths as long as 150 feet...

separate constellation by classical astronomers; it was designated by Johannes Hevelius in 1687. There are 37 stars brighter than apparent magnitude 6.5 in...