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Hevelius
[ huh-vey-lee-uhs; German hey-vey-lee-oos ]
noun
- Johannes Johann Hewel or Hewelke, 1611–87, Polish astronomer: charted the moon's surface and discovered four comets.
- a walled plain in the second quadrant of the face of the moon: about 100 miles (160 km) in diameter.
Hevelius
/ heˈveːliʊs /
noun
- HeveliusJohannes16111687MGermanSCIENCE: astronomer Johannes (joˈhanəs). 1611–87, German astronomer, who published one of the first detailed maps of the lunar surface
Example Sentences
This backward-looking astronomer had been born in 1611, which perhaps explains his old-fashioned attitude, and christened Johann Höwelcke, but Latinized his name to Johannes Hevelius.
In a correspondence beginning in 1668, Hooke implored him to switch to telescopic sights, but Hevelius stubbornly refused, claiming that he could do just as well with open sights.
When Hevelius wrote to Flamsteed at the end of 1678 asking to see Halley’s data, the Royal Society saw an opportunity to check up on Hevelius’s claims.
In fact, Hevelius lived for another nine years, so he cannot have been that frail when Halley saw him.
The truth is that Hevelius was simply too set in his ways to change and distrusted the new-fangled methods.
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