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   Mayer
   Tobias
   T. M. ; Tobias Mayer the Elder / Majer ;
   Maria Victoria, née Gnüge (1723-1780) in 1751, daughter of the priest Johann Christoph Gnüge († 1747) from Neckarbischofsheim
   physicist Johann Tobias Mayer (1752-1830)
   1723 in Marbach am Neckar
   1762
   Göttingen
   Tobias Mayer (1682-1731), cartwright & velve-master
   mother Anna Catherina (1682-1737) ; his grandfather was also called Tobias Mayer ;
   autodidactic studies of mathematics, physics & astronomy; Latin school in Esslingen
   Germany
   Mathematical Atlas (Augsburg 1745) ; Homannsche Landkartenofficin / Die Homannschen Erben (Nuremberg 1746ff.) ; Kosmographische Nachrichten und Sammlungen (1748) ; map "Germaniae ... Mappa Critica" (drawn in 1750 & publ. in 1753) ; map "Circulus Austriacus" (1747) ; Nova methodus perficiendi instrumenta geometrica, et novum instrumentum goniometricum, 1753 ; Das Fortificationsbuch (Augsburg 1744-45) ;
   
   copper engr. -> Pfeffel , -> Kaltenhofer ; cartographer Johann Matthias Hase (1684-1742) ;
   astronomical, mathematical, geographic, architectural, topographic & cartographic drawing; map-making; 3D globe making
   https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Karte_des_Vollmondes_-_1829.jpg ; commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1749_map_Chinese_Tartary_by_Tobias_Mayer.jpg
   https://www.deutsche-biographie.de/sfz70666.html ; https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobias_Mayer ; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobias_Mayer
   Menso Folkerts in NDB 16 (1990): 528-530; Poggendorff II & VIIa ; Mokre 2005: 32f.; Erwin Roth: Tobias Mayer 1723-1762 - Vermesser des Meeres, der Erde und des Himmels, Esslingen 1985, esp. pp. 48-58, 60-63, 125ff., 180f.; Eric Gray Forbes: T. M., a case of forgotten genius, British Journal of the History of Science 5 (1970): 1-20; PE.G. Forbes: ioneer of Enlightened Science in Germany, 1980 ; Erwin Roth u.a.: Tobias Mayer. Pionier der Positionsbestimmung. Wegbereiter der modernen Navigationssysteme (Marbach 1995) ; Steven Wepster: Between theory and observation. Tobias Mayer´s explorations of lunar motion 1751-1755 (2010) ; Diefenbacher, Heinz & Bach-Damaskinos 2002: ; Grees 2002: 42f. ;
   He was given just one first name: Tobias, not Johann as often mentioned in the secondary and research literature. Further examples of his work can be found at https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Tobias_Mayer?uselang=de ; most impressive is his highly detaled topographic map of the moon surface, the first executed with precise measurements of all observed features.
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