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Last Name Beer

Given Name Wilhelm

alt. Names W. B. ; Guillelmus / Guilelmo / Guillaume‏ ;

Marriage Doris Schlesinger (1xxx-1xxx)

Children 3

Year born 1797 in Berlin

Year died 1850

Place of death Berlin

Father's occupation Jakob Herz Beer (1xxx-1xxx)

Relatives mother Amalie Beer (1xxx-1xxx)

Education Joachimsthalsches Gymnasium Berlin; military career, later active as banker

Country of Activity Germany

Worked for Physische Beobachtungen des Mars bei seiner Opposition im September 1830 ; Mappa Selenographica (1834) ; Der Mond nach seinen kosmischen und individuellen Verhältnissen, oder, Allgemeine vergleichende Selenographie (1837) ; Beiträge zur physischen Kenntniss der himmlischen Körper im Sonnensysteme 18xx ;

Patronage

Collaborators schoolteacher ->Johann Heinrich Mädler (1794-1874) on detailed drawings of the Mars surface (c. 1830) and of the lumar surface (1834) ;

Techniques astronomical und lunar drawing

Sample(s) https://eee.uci.edu/clients/bjbecker/ExploringtheCosmos/marsbeermadler1830b.jpg

Archival sources

Published sources Omar Nasim: James Nasmyth on the Moon; Or on Becoming a Lunar Being Without the Lunacy,” in: Pérez González, Carmen (ed.): Selene’s Two Faces: From 17th Century Drawings to Spacecraft Imaging (Leiden 2018) ;

other A banker and astronomer from Berlin, Prussia, and half-brother of Giacomo Meyerbeer.

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