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Astronomer, Cartographer and Naturalist of the New World - The Life and Scholarly Achievements of Georg Marggrafe (1610-1643) in Colonial Dutch Brazil. Volume 1: Life, Work and Legacy (Hardcover)
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Astronomer, Cartographer and Naturalist of the New World - The Life and Scholarly Achievements of Georg Marggrafe (1610-1643) in Colonial Dutch Brazil. Volume 1: Life, Work and Legacy (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in the History of Knowledge
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This volume, Volume 1, presents Marggrafe's stunning biography.
Volume 2 consists of a text edition of his astronomical legacy,
prepared for the printing press in the 1650s, but only now
finalized and published. Georg Marggrafe (1610-1643) is today
hailed as the principal author of an influential account of the
natural history of Northern Brazil and as compiler of the first
accurate map of the area, which is considered as one of the most
elegant products of seventeenth-century Dutch cartography. But
initial he had the ambition to become known in astronomy. With the
support Johan Maurits van Nassau-Siegen, then governor-general of
colonial Dutch Brazil, he built in Recife the first European-style
astronomical observatory on the South-American continent, where he
systematically charted the southern stars. He intended to
supplement the famous astronomer Tycho Brahe, who charted the
Northern sky half a century before. But Marggrafe's untimely death
(and the negligence of a Leiden professor) prevented the
publication of his valuable observations. As a result, Marggrafe
did not achieve fame in astronomy, but instead became famous for
his equally remarkable other achievements.
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