Joachim Gardemann

Joachim Gardemann

Joachim Gardemann is a passionate hobby astronomer and a watercolour illustrator in his international Red Cross missions. His Red Cross working experience as health delegate, health coordinator, paediatrician and senior medical officer with IFRC or ICRC is covering emergency missions in Tanzania (1995 and 1998), Macedonia (1999), Iran (2003), Sudan (2004), Sri Lanka (2005), the Peoples Republic of China (2008) and Haiti (2010), additionally he has teaching and research experiences in Serbia Read more [...]
Nikolaus Kopernikus

Nikolaus Kopernikus

Nicolaus Copernicus (/koʊˈpɜːrnɪkəs, kə-/;[2][3][4] Polish: Mikołaj Kopernik;[b] Middle Low German: Niklas Koppernigk, German: Nikolaus Kopernikus; 19 February 1473 – 24 May 1543) was a Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center. In all likelihood, Copernicus developed Read more [...]
Maimonides

Maimonides

Moses ben Maimon[a] (1138–1204), commonly known as Maimonides (/maɪˈmɒnɪdiːz/)[b] and also referred to by the acronym Rambam (Hebrew: רמב״ם),[c] was a medieval Sephardic Jewish philosopher who became one of the most prolific and influential Torah scholars of the Middle Ages. In his time, he was also a preeminent astronomer and physician, serving as the personal physician of Saladin. Born in Córdoba, Almoravid Read more [...]
Samuel Heinrich Schwabe

Samuel Heinrich Schwabe

Samuel Heinrich Schwabe (25 October 1789 – 11 April 1875) a German astronomer remembered for his work on sunspots. He also was Botaniker. His official botanic short code is „Schwabe“. He studied pharmacy, chemistry, botanics and physics in Berlin. Coming back to Dessau in 1811 he ran the pharmacy of his grandfather. After selling the pharmacy in 1829 he dedicated himself to science and lived in the Schwabehaus. Schwabe was born at Dessau. Read more [...]
Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers

Heinrich Wilhelm Olbers

Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers (/ˈɔːlbərz/; German: [ˈɔlbɐs]; 11 October 1758 – 2 March 1840) was a German physician and astronomer. On 28 March 1802, Olbers discovered and named the asteroidPallas. Five years later, on 29 March 1807, he discovered the asteroid Vesta, which he allowed Carl Friedrich Gauss to name. As the word "asteroid" was not yet coined, the literature of the time referred to these minor planets as planets in their own right. He proposed that the asteroid Read more [...]
Albrecht von Haller

Albrecht von Haller

Albrecht von Haller (also known as Albertus de Haller; 16 October 1708 – 12 December 1777) was a Swiss anatomist, physiologist, naturalist, encyclopedist, bibliographer and poet. A pupil of Herman Boerhaave, he is often referred to as "the father of modern physiology."[1][2] His botanic abbreviation is "Haller", also used as "Hall." AS author his monumental work is Die Alpen. In "Die Alpen" are notes pointing out some plants of his Read more [...]