Mayer, Tobias (1723-62)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3848. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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Mathematician, born in Marbach, Württemberg, Germany, who, self-taught, discovered the libration (back and forth oscillation on its axis) of the Moon, which won him the chair of mathematics at Göttingen. Made the first accurately measured map of the Moon. Attempted to formulate predictions of the motion of the Sun and Moon as a means to determine longitude at sea, sent them to the British gov...

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