Palitzsch, Johann Georg (1723-88)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3908. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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German farmer-astronomer in Dresden who recovered Halley's Comet at its
predicted reappearance in 1758. During the 1761 transit of Venus across
the Sun, he observed a black band linking Venus to the edge of the Sun
at the beginning and end of the transit (the `tear-drop effect') and
correctly interpreted this as an effect of Venus' atmosphere....

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