Johannes Hevelius

✶February 7, 1611

†February 7, 1687

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About their life

Johannes Hevelius was a councillor and chairman of the city council of the Old Town, Gdańsk. As an astronomer, he gained a reputation as "the founder of lunar topography", and described ten new constellations, seven of which are still used by astronomers.

astronomer setting up the cartography of the Moon

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Biography from the article Johannes Hevelius on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.