Johannes Hevelius’s Moon Atlas
It was the most comprehensive celestial atlas of its time. However, it was through the use of telescopes that Hevelius gained fame as the founder of lunar topography. The surface of the Moon by Johannes Hevelius. Johannes Hevelius was born in 1611 in Danzig, Poland. His father owned a profitable brewery and wanted his son to become a businessman like himself. At the age of 19, Hevelius went to study law at the University of Leiden....