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Hevelius
[huh-vey-lee-uhs, hey-vey-lee-oos]
noun
Johannes Johann Hewel or Hewelke, 1611–87, Polish astronomer: charted the moon's surface and discovered four comets.
a walled plain in the second quadrant of the face of the moon: about 100 miles (160 km) in diameter.
Hevelius
/ ˈːʊ /
noun
Johannes (joˈhanəs). 1611–87, German astronomer, who published one of the first detailed maps of the lunar surface
Example Sentences
Initially, Halley supported Hevelius’s claims, reporting back that his positions obtained with open sights really were as good as he claimed.
When Halley visited Danzig, Hevelius was 68 and Elisabetha was 32.
This backward-looking astronomer had been born in 1611, which perhaps explains his old-fashioned attitude, and christened Johann Höwelcke, but Latinized his name to Johannes Hevelius.
In a correspondence beginning in 1668, Hooke implored him to switch to telescopic sights, but Hevelius stubbornly refused, claiming that he could do just as well with open sights.
The truth is that Hevelius was simply too set in his ways to change and distrusted the new-fangled methods.
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