Labels:bulletin board | earth | reckoner | sky OCR: Metius Adriaen: 1157 11635 Netherlandish mathemati- cian instrument maker anc cartographer wha worked un der Tycho Brahe at his observatory on the island of Hven After returning Holland Metius gathered navigational instruments, observed sun spats and carried aut experi ments with the first telescapes (invented bu his brother Ja- cob Metius) While acting a.s prafessor extraordina rius the University of Franeker he published books on cartogra phy and navigation. One, Institutiones astronomcae geogra- phicaegue, appeared with Geograph'sche Onderwysinghe, uxaer in ghehandeld wordt die Beschryinghe ende Afietinghe des Aertoche Globe (Franeker, 1614; Amsterdam. 1621) These boaks synthesized knowledge from ll fields and stressed the technique +t triangulation pioneered h the Frisian sur vevars (f ...
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