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   Dickert
   Thomas
   Th. D. ;
   Elisabetha Klees (1807-1879) in Dietkirchen bei Bonn on Aug. 21, 1833 ;
   1 son: engineer Andreas Georg Dickert (1836-1904) ; 1 daughter: Pauline ;
   1801 in Bamberg
   1883
   Poppelsdorf near Bonn
   dayly paid simple worker Georg Dickert (1744-1810)
   Anna Dickert, born Nöthler (1761-1810) (mother), see www.dicomp.de/Kartei/ab178.htm
   became curator of the Bonn Natural History Museum ;
   Germany
   3D lunar model (1853) with a diameter of 5,63m (18 Paris feet), featuring 20000 different objects on 116 gypsum plates covering a grid of 15'x15' ;
   Bonn Natural History Museum (curator) ; his lunar 3D-model was exhibited in Bonn, Elberfeld, and Hamburg in 1853/54 ;
   astronomer and geophysicist Johann Friedrich Julius Schmidt (1825-1884): Das Relief der sichtbaren Halbkugel des Mondes (Bonn: Georgi, 1854) ;
   3D model-making of the moon & of mountain ranges, e.g., of island & volcanoe at Teneriffe; lunar & terrestrial cartography ;
   http://whoworeitbetter.info/post/51386809558/thomas-dickert-and-johann-friedrich-julius ;
   Andreas Christoph: Weltenmodelle, in: Acta Historica Leopoldina 67 (2015): 84; Oliver C. Farrington: Schmidt-Dickert moon model, Science 9 (1899):35-6
   Jürgen Blunck: Deutsche Pionierarbeiten der Monddarstellung mit erhabenem Relief, in: Der Globusfreund Nr. 47/48 (1999): 293-303 & plate 37 ; Susanne Utzt: Astronomie & Anschaulichkeit (2004: 79) ; Klaus Hentschel & A. Wittmann: The Role of Visual Representations in Astronomy (Frankfurt 1999: 19-20) ;
   See also J. F. J.Schmidt's emphatic comm.on TD's lunar model in Staats- & Gelehrte Zeitung des Hamburgischen unpartheiischen Correspondenten, July 19, 1854 ; T. D.'s model was last exhibited in the Field Columbian Museum in Chicago c. 1900 and then disappeared.
   
   
   







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