Lohrmann, Wilhelm Gotthelf (1796-1840)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3820. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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Surveyor and amateur astronomer, born in Dresden, he was the second selenographer (after TOBIAS MAYER) to make and publish a lunar map based on quantitative measurements and geometric calculations, rather than merging eye-sketches. Lohmann's map was based on a diameter of the Moon of about a meter, over five times the diameter of Mayer's. He was helped and encouraged by CARL GAUSS and J ENCKE. Pu...

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