Langren [Langrenus], Michael Florent van [Michael Florentius] (c. 1600-75)

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Nov 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000eaa..booke3791.&link_type=abstract

"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3791. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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`Spherographer', i.e. astronomer, cartographer, geographer and engineer, born in Amsterdam (probably), into a prominent Belgian family of map- and globe-makers. Tried to determine longitude by predicting phenomena on the Moon (such as the illumination and shadowing of lunar mountains) that could be observed from all points of the Earth and used as clocks. In the course of this work, he prepared l...

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