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with an external orientation (i.e., representing the stars as if seen from the outside looking in, as opposed to from the perspective of an earth observer, the preferred orientation for modern celestial maps), featuring contemporary illustrations of European observatories, which Doppelmayr visited
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of mathematics at the Aegidien-Gymnasium from 1704 until his death. He is not noted for any discoveries, but he did publish several works of a scientific nature. His publications covered topics on mathematics and astronomy, including sundials,
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Doppelmayr married Susanna Maria Kellner in 1716. The couple had four children of whom one survived. Doppelmayr became a member of several scientific societies, notably the Berlin Academy, the
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The atlas contained 30 plates, 20 of which treated astronomical themes and historical development, including
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Johann Siegmund Doppelmayr. He entered the Aegidien-Gymnasium in Nuremberg in 1689, then the
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Ralf Kern. Wissenschaftliche Instrumente in ihrer Zeit. Vol. 3. Cologne, 2010. p. 243.
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Doppelmayr's celestial map of the southern hemisphere published in
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Atlas novus coelestis, Norimberga 1742 da www.atlascoelestis.com
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in 1733, and the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1740).
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J. G. Doppelmayr

mathematician
astronomer
cartographer
Nuremberg
merchant
University of Altdorf
physics
jurisprudence
Sun
University of Halle
French
Italian
Utrecht
Leiden
Oxford
London
professor
spherical trigonometry

Greenwich
Copenhagen
Cassel
Berlin
Dominican friar
Johann Batist Homann
Copernicus
Tycho Brahe
Solar System

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