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Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (Russian: Василий Яковлевич Струве, trans. Vasily Yakovlevich Struve; 15 April 1793 – 23 November [ O.S. 11 November] 1864) was a Baltic German astronomer and geodesist. He is best known for studying double stars and for initiating a triangulation survey later named Struve Geodetic Arc ...
Apr 11, 2024 · Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (born April 15, 1793, Altona, Den. [now in Germany]—died Nov. 23, 1864, St. Petersburg, Russia) was one of the greatest 19th-century astronomers and the first in a line of four generations of distinguished astronomers, who founded the modern study of binary stars. To avoid conscription by the Napoleonic ...
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Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (1793–1864), professor of the Tartu University and the long-time head of the University’s astronomy observatory, systematised the results of the selected measurements of the fragments of the triangulation networks for calculating the meridian’s Arcand described them in a final report, Arc du Méridien de ...
The German-born Russian astronomer and geodesist Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (1793-1864) is noted for his observations of double stars and for the measurement of the meridional arc from the north coast of Norway to Ismail on the Danube. On April 15, 1793, F. G. W. von Struve was born in Altona, then part of the Holy Roman Empire.
(1793–1864)Germanastronomer, father of O. W. Struve. In 1819 he began to observe double stars, aiming to continue where F. W. Herschel left off. The next year he published the first of many double-star catalogues, the last of which (1852) compared separations and position angles with historical data (his catalogue numbers for doubles are ...
Aug 25, 2014 · By Glenn Chaple | Published: August 25, 2014 | Last updated on May 18, 2023. In 1824, German-born Russian astronomer Friedrich Georg Wilhelm Struve undertook an ambitious search for double stars.
Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve was a Baltic German astronomer and geodesist. He is best known for studying double stars and for initiating a triangulation survey later named Struve Geodetic Arc in his honor.
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