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211: 25: 355:, Forschung und Lehre in der zweiten Hälfte des 18. Jahrhunderts. Der Naturwissenschaftler und Universitätsprofessor Christian Mayer SJ (1719–1783) (Algorismus, Studien zur Geschichte der Mathematik und der Naturwissenschaften, Bd. 54), Erwin Rauner Verlag, Augsburg, 523 Seiten mit 8 Tafeln, 2006. 405: 122: 434:
Bell, Whitfield J., and Charles Greifenstein, Jr. Patriot-Improvers: Biographical Sketches of Members of the American Philosophical Society. 3 vols. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1997, 3:564–568.
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GrĂĽndliche Vertheidigung neuer Beobachtungen von Fixsterntrabanten welche zu Mannheim auf der kurfĂĽrstl. Sternwarte endecket worden sind
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Nouvelle méthode pour lever en peu de temps et à peu de frais une carte générale et exacte de toute la Russie
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Pantometrum Pacechianum, seu instrumentum novum pro elicienda ex una statione distantia loci inaccessi
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During his lifetime he became a member of numerous learned societies. He died in Heidelberg.
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Christian Mayers Catalog of 1781, a commentated new edition of Mayers catalog
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De novis in coelo sidereo phaenomenis in miris stellarum fixarum comitibus
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in 1745. After completing his training he began teaching humanities.
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By 1752 his reputation was such that he was selected as a
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