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Michael van
Langren (April 1598 – May 1675) was an
astronomer and
cartographer of the Low Countries. A Catholic, he
chiefly found employment in service...
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Jacob van
Langren (c. 1525 – 27 July 1610) was a
Dutch cartographer and globe-maker who
established a
family dynasty of
three generations in
those professions...
- of the Moon,
based on
telescopic observation, were made by
Michael van
Langren in 1645. Many of his
denominations were
distinctly Catholic, denominating...
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source of the gas.[citation needed]
Flemish astronomer Michael van
Langren was the
first person to draw a
lunar map
while giving names to many of...
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Meridionalis ("Southern Continent") in his map of c.1600, and
Michael van
Langren had
labelled it the Mare Borboni**** (after the
House of Bourbon) in his...
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Insula Borealis ("Northern Island") in his map of c.1600, and
Michael van
Langren had
labelled it the Mare Astronomi**** ("Sea of Astronomy") in his 1645...
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after the
English astronomer Edmond Halley. On the 1645 map by
Michael van
Langren, the
crater is
called Gansii, for the
gansa (a kind of wild swan) of Francis...
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Maunder Minimum.
First published map of the Moon
produced by
Michael van
Langren. A
version of the law of
gravitation is
suggested by Ismaël Bullialdus...
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being labelled as such by
Thomas Harriot,
Pierre G****endi and
Michael van
Langren. Ewen A.
Whitaker speculates that it
received this name
because it occupies...
- 'Thersite'
after Thersites, the
ugliest warrior in the
Trojan War.
Michael van
Langren had
labelled it the Mare
Eugenianum ("Eugenia's Sea") in his 1645 map,...
