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Wilhelm Wargentin (Sunne parish, Jämtlands län 11 September 1717 (OS) – Stockholm 13 December 1783), Swedish astronomer and demographer. Wargentin was the...

Wargentin is an unusual lunar impact crater which has been filled to its rim by a basaltic lava flow, forming a raised plateau. When the lava flow occurred...

of the Moon. It is attached to the southeast rim of the flooded crater Wargentin, and the southern half is overlain by the larger Phocylides. The rim of...

Nasmyth to the north. To the northwest is the unusual plateau formation of Wargentin. Eastward is the merged formation Schiller, and in the southwest lies...

Schickard Seleucus Stadius Stöfler Thebit Theophilus Tycho Vendelinus Wargentin List of craters on the Moon This term was coined by Soviet explorers of...

June 1740 Jacob Faggot, 1741–1744 Pehr Elvius, 1744–1749 Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, 1749–1783 Johan Carl Wilcke and Henrik Nicander, 1784–1796 Daniel Melanderhjelm...

the northeast is the even smaller Drebbel. Southwest of Schickard is Wargentin, a lava-flooded plateau. Schickard has a worn rim that is overlain in...

km) Thebit (55 km) Theophilus (99 km) Tycho (85 km) Vendelinus (141 km) Wargentin (85 km) List of lunar features List of people with craters of the Moon...

artist Anna Ottosson, alpine skier Helge Palmcrantz, inventor Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, astronomer and father of Statistics Sweden Hans Blix former UNMOVIC chairman...

into a second golden era (the first being the astronomer Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin's period as secretary from 1749 to 1783). He was elected a Foreign Honorary...

the first to connect the aurora to magnetic disturbances. Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin was his pupil. Hiorter was elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy...

Eva Margareta. Eva was an older cousin of the astronomer Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin. Together with his younger brother Birger Martin, Hall studied medicine...

Celsius establishes the Uppsala Astronomical Observatory. Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin publishes his first paper on the moons of Jupiter, in the Acta of the...

Observatorielunden. The first head of the observatory was Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin. Later heads of the observatory include Hugo Gyldén and Bertil Lindblad...

(1861–1944), Prime Minister and third President of Finland Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin (1717–1783), Swedish astronomer and demographer Per Pär Peter All pages...

Stewart, Scottish mathematician (died 1785) September 11 – Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer (died 1783) November 16 – Jean le Rond d'Alembert...

Wapowski (1450–1535) WGPSN Wargentin 49°32′S 60°26′W / 49.53°S 60.44°W / -49.53; -60.44 (Wargentin) 84.69 1935 Pehr Vilhelm Wargentin (1717–1783) WGPSN Warner...

Fürchtegott Gellert, German poet and hymn-writer (b. 1715) 1783 – Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin, Swedish astronomer and demographer (b. 1717) 1784 – Samuel Johnson, English...

Keplerian model of the Solar System. Swedish astronomer Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin (1717–83) used Rømer's method in the preparation of his ephemerides of...

learned men, including chemist Torbern Bergman and astronomer Pehr Wilhelm Wargentin (who joined somewhat later). Among their aims was to start a domestic...