Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
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Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel was a German astronomer, mathematician, physicist, and geodesist. He was the first astronomer who determined reliable values for the distance from the Sun to another star by t
C. A. Jensen, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, 1839 (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek)
Königsberg Observatory (1830)
Bessel's geodetic apparatus, in the museum of Istituto Geografico Militare, Florence, Italy
Tabulae Regiomontanae reductionum observationum astronomicarum ab anno 1750 usque ad annum 1850 computatae, 1830
Heinrich Scherk
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Heinrich Ferdinand Scherk was a German mathematician notable for his work on minimal surfaces and the distribution of prime numbers. He is also notable as the doctoral advisor of Ernst Kummer.
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
…and 1841) Scientific career Fields Astronomy, mathematics, geodesy Workplaces University of Königsberg Doctoral students Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander Heinrich Scherk Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (German: ; 22 July 1784 – 17 March 1846) was a German astronomer, mathematician, physicist, and geodesist. He was the first…
Heinrich Ferdinand Scherk