Johann Hieronymus Schröter (30 August 1745, Erfurt – 29 August 1816, Lilienthal) was a German astronomer. Schröter was born in Erfurt, and studied law...
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(surname) Schroter's Valley (AKA Vallis Schröteri), a lunar feature named after Johann Hieronymus Schröter All pages with titles containing Schröter All pages...
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Hieronymus Schröter. It lies to the north of the craters Sömmering and Mösting. To the southeast of the crater rim is a rille named the Rima Schröter...
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work Aréographie in 1875. He tracked down the Mars drawings of Johann Hieronymus Schröter and deposited them at Leiden University, where they would eventually...
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observer named d'Angos. On September 26, 1789, the German astronomer Johann Hieronymus Schröter noticed a speck of light close to the eastern foot of the Montes...
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Spitzbergen. This mountain feature is thought to have been named by Johann Hieronymus Schröter for Pico del Teide on Tenerife. Mons Pico forms an elongated feature...
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Copernicus. The name T. Mayer was first given to this crater by Johann Hieronymus Schröter in 1802. This crater is embedded within a region of rugged ridges...
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in 1787). Tobias Mayer, engraved map, 1749, published in 1775. Johann Hieronymus Schröter, Selenotopografisches Fragmenten, 1st volume 1791, 2nd volume...
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mountains and cup-like depressions. These were named craters by Johann Hieronymus Schröter (1791), extending its previous use with volcanoes. Robert Hooke...
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worked on geodesy. He edited and published the Mars drawings of Johann Hieronymus Schröter in 1881, long after the latter's death. He married Geertruida...
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diameter at 260 km (160 mi) in 1802; in 1811, German astronomer Johann Hieronymus Schröter overestimated it as 2,613 km (1,624 mi). In the 1970s, infrared...
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more focussed agenda in Lilienthal, at the observatory of Johann Hieronymus Schröter. Schröter had arranged for a visit by Prince Adolph Frederick to coincide...
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This scale had been established in 1791 by the German astronomer Johann Hieronymus Schröter and popularized by Elger. Elger was a member of several astronomical...
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(Netherlands, 1929–) Robert Schommer (United States, 1946–2001) Johann Hieronymus Schröter (Germany, 1745–1816) Lipót Schulhof (Hungary, 1847–1921) Heinrich...
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(1740). The crater Doppelmayer on the Moon was named after him by Johann Hieronymus Schröter in 1791. The minor planet 12622 Doppelmayr is also named in his...
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rather than clouds or other transient features. Observers like Johann Hieronymus Schröter had come to the opposite conclusion. He also made observations...
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mountains in the inner ring of the Mare Imbrium, was named by Johann Hieronymus Schröter after the Pico von Teneriffe, an 18th-century German name for...
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August 12 – John Smith, American politician (b. 1752) August 29 – Johann Hieronymus Schröter, German astronomer (b. 1745) September 20 – Harry Innes, United...
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mountain of terrestrial Alps, was proposed for this mountain by Johann Hieronymus Schröter. It was approved by International Astronomical Union in 1935....
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astronomer Johann Hieronymus Schröter (1745–1816), German astronomer Johann Samuel Schröter (1735–1808), German Protestant theologian and conchologist Johann Samuel...
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priest Maximilian Hell (1720–1792). The name was first given by Johann Hieronymus Schröter to the entire plane, Hell plane, which is now known as Deslandres...
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theology, mathematics, and physics. In 1796, Johann Hieronymus Schröter hired Harding as a tutor for his son. Schröter was an enthusiastic astronomer and owner...
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evidence of Venus' atmosphere was gathered in observations by Johann Hieronymus Schröter in 1779. The planet also offered Alexis Claude de Clairaut an...
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Bindersleben Johann Rudolf Engau (1708–1755), jurist Sidonia Hedwig Zäunemann (1711–1740), poet Johann Christian Kittel (1732–1809), composer Johann Hieronymus Schröter...
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26°12′N 50°48′W / 26.2°N 50.8°W / 26.2; -50.8 168 km Johann Hieronymus Schröter Schröter Vallis Snellius 31°06′S 56°00′E / 31.1°S 56.0°E / -31...
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Francis Asbury, American Methodist Bishop (d. 1816) August 30 – Johann Hieronymus Schröter, German astronomer (d. 1816) September 4 – Schneur Zalman of Liadi...
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99°E / -1.89; 55.99 (Schroeter) 291.59 298.12 285.7 19 1973 Johann Hieronymus Schröter WGPSN Kovalʼsky 29°44′S 141°26′W / 29.73°S 141.43°W / -29.73;...
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German pastor, conchologist, mineralogist and palaeontologist Johann Hieronymus Schröter (1745–1816), German astronomer Hans Wilhelm Schrøder (24 June...
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education, Bessel left Kulenkamp in 1806 and became assistant at Johann Hieronymus Schröter's private observatory in Lilienthal near Bremen as successor of...
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the tables and illustrations for the Schrötersche Mondwerk by Johann Hieronymus Schröter. In 1796, together with the cartographer, Carl Ludwig Murtfeldt [de]...
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