Johannes Hevelius
Astronomer setting up the cartography of the Moon
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Updated 2026-05-29
Gdańsk councillor who mapped the Moon's surface before telescopes got good and invented seven constellations that actually stuck around. Hevelius made the night sky a bit more charted and a lot less mysterious.
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Johannes Hevelius was a councillor and chairman of the city council of the Old Town, Gdańsk. As an astronomer, he gained a reputation as "the founder of lunar topography", and described ten new constellations, seven of which are still used by astronomers.
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