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Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander Heinrich Scherk. Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel ( German: [ˈbɛsl̩]; 22 July 1784 – 17 March 1846) 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 the method of parallax.
Apr 17, 2024 · Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, German astronomer whose measurements of positions for about 50,000 stars and rigorous methods of observation took astronomy to a new level of precision. He was the first to measure the parallax, and hence the distance, of a star other than the Sun. Learn more about Bessel’s life and work.
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Jul 22, 2011 · Z Kopal, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel - an appreciation, Astrophys. and Space Sci. 110 (1) (1985), 3-10. M Küssner, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessels Beziehungen zu Göttingen und Erinnerungen an ihn, Gauss-Ges. Göttingen Mitt. 15 (1978), 5-19. K K Lavrinovich, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1784-1846): On the 200 th anniversary of his birth (Russian), Istor ...
Jun 27, 2018 · Bessel, Friedrich Wilhelm. ( b. Minden, Germany, 22 July 1784; d. Königsberg, Germany [now Kaliningrad, U.S.S.R.], 17 March 1846) astronomy, geodesy, mathematics. Bessel’s father was a civil servant in Minden; his mother was the daughter of a minister named Schrader from Rheme, Westphalia. Bessel had six sisters and two brothers, both of ...
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel. Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, engraving by E. Mandel after a painting by Franz Wolf. Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, (born July 22, 1784, Minden, Brandenburg—died March 17, 1846, Königsberg, Prussia), German astronomer. He was the first to measure (by means of parallax) the distance to a star other than the Sun.
May 23, 2024 · Bessel function, any of a set of mathematical functions systematically derived around 1817 by the German astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel during an investigation of solutions of one of Kepler’s equations of planetary motion. Particular functions of the set had been formulated earlier by the Swiss mathematicians Daniel Bernoulli, who ...
The work of the German astronomer and mathematician Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel (1784 –1846) provides a good illustration. Among his many other accomplishments, Bessel developed techniques to measure the positions of stars with far greater accuracy than previously possible.
