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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 2: Transcription and English Translation of His Astronomical Observations (Paperback)
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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 2: Transcription and English Translation of His Astronomical Observations (Paperback)
Series: Studies in the History of Knowledge
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This volume, Volume 2, is a supplementary text and consists of a
text edition of his astronomical legacy, prepared for the printing
press in the 1650s, but only now finalized and published. Volume 1
presents Marggrafe's stunning biography. 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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