Hevelius

[huh-vey-lee-uhs, hey-vey-lee-oos]

noun

1. Johannes Johann Hewel or Hewelke, 1611–87, Polish astronomer: charted the moon's surface and discovered four comets.

2. a walled plain in the second quadrant of the face of the moon: about 100 miles (160 km) in diameter.

Hevelius

/ heˈveːliʊs /

noun

1. Johannes (joˈhanəs). 1611–87, German astronomer, who published one of the first detailed maps of the lunar surface

Example Sentences

The truth is that Hevelius was simply too set in his ways to change and distrusted the new-fangled methods.

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When Hevelius wrote to Flamsteed at the end of 1678 asking to see Halley’s data, the Royal Society saw an opportunity to check up on Hevelius’s claims.

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Halley sent Hevelius a copy of the southern catalogue and said that he would be happy to use the new data from Hevelius instead of the star positions from Tycho to make the link between the northern and southern skies.

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Halley later claimed that he had only been tactful to Hevelius’s face, not wanting to hasten, the death of ‘an old peevish Gentleman’.

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Hevelius’s first wife had died in 1662, and in 1663 he had married a 16-year-old beauty, Elisabetha.

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