Tobias Mayer
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 262 years ago |
Date of birth | February 17,1723 |
Zodiac sign | Aquarius |
Born | Marbach Am Neckar |
Germany | |
Date of died | February 20,1762 |
Died | Gottingen |
Germany | |
Field | Astronomy |
Children | Johann Tobias Mayer |
Job | Astronomer |
Books | Tobias Mayer's Opera Inedita: The First Translation of the Lichtenberg Edition of 1775 |
The unpublished writings of Tobias Mayer | |
The Euler- Mayer Correspondence (1751-1755): A New Perspective on Eighteenth-century Advances in the Lunar Theory | |
Mayer's Lunar Tables, Improved by Mr. Charles Mason. Published by Order of the Commissioners of Longitude | |
The People's Scrum: Revolutionäre Ideen für den agilen Wandel | |
Nationality | German |
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ID | 651909 |
Tobias Mayer Life story
Tobias Mayer was a German astronomer famous for his studies of the Moon. He was born at Marbach, in Württemberg, and brought up at Esslingen in poor circumstances. A self-taught mathematician, he earned a living by teaching mathematics while still a youth.