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Astronomer
Isaac Habrecht II
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Isaac Habrecht II (1589-1633) was a professor of astronomy and mathematics in Strasbourg. He was also a doctor of medicine and philosophy.
Uranography
Isaac Habrecht II made a celestial globe and a couple of celestial planispheres. He introduced some constellations that created by a Dutch cartographer Plancius. And he invented now obsolete constellation Rhombus. It followed by a French cartographer Royer. Later, it tuned into le Reticule Romboide (now Reticulum) by a French astronomer de Lacaille.
Families
- Isaac Habrecht I: his father, a horologist.
- Isaac Habrecht III: his nephew, a clockmaker.
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