HEINRICH WILHELM See also:

• MATTHIAS
• MATTHIAS (1557-1619)

MATTHIAS See also:

• HEINRICH WILHELM MATTHIAS OLBERS (1758-1840)

OLBERS (1758-1840)  , See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German astronomer, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the xxth of See also:

• OCTOBER

October 1758 at Arbergen, a See also:

• VILLAGE

village near See also:

• BREMEN

Bremen, where his See also:

• FATHER

father was See also:

• MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister . He studied See also:

• MEDICINE

medicine at See also:

• GOTTINGEN

Gottingen, 1777-1780, attending at the same See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time Kaestner's mathematical course; and in x779, while watching by the sick-See also:

• BED
• BED (a common Teutonic word, cf. German Bett, probably connected with the Indo-European root bhodh, seen in the Lat. fodere, to dig; so " a dug-out place " for safe resting, or in the same sense as a garden " bed ")

bed of a See also:

• FELLOW

fellow-student, he devised a method of calculating cometary orbits which made an See also:

• EPOCH (Gr. E7roxij, holding in suspense, a pause, from E1rxav, to hold up, to stop)

epoch in the treatment of the subject, and is still extensively used . The See also:

• TREATISE

treatise containing this important invention was made public by See also:

• BARON
• BARON (1835-1895)
• BARON, MICHEL (1653—1729)

Baron von See also:

• ZACH, FRANZ XAVER, BARON VON (1754-1832)

Zach under the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title Ueber See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

die leichteste and bequemste Methode die Bahn eines See also:

• CAMDEN
• CAMDEN, CHARLES PRATT, 1ST EARL (1714-1794)
• CAMDEN, JOHN JEFFREYS PRATT, 2ND EARL
• CAMDEN, WILLIAM (1551-1623)

Camden zu berechnen (See also:

• WEIMAR

Weimar, 1797) . A table of eighty-seven calculated orbits was appended, enlarged by See also:

• ENCKE, JOHANN FRANZ (1791–1865)

Encke in the second edition (1847) to 178, and by See also:

• GALLE, or POINT DE GALLE

Galle in the third (1864) to 242 . See also:

• OLBERS, HEINRICH WILHELM MATTHIAS (1758-1840)

Olbers settled as a physician in Bremen towards the end of 1781, and practised actively for above See also:

• FORTY

forty years, finally retiring on the 1st of See also:

• JANUARY

January 1823 . The greater See also:

• PART

part of each See also:

• NIGHT

night (he never slept more than four See also:

• HOURS, CANONICAL

hours) was meantime devoted to See also:

• ASTRONOMY (from Gr. &arpov, a star, and v ,usiv, to classify or arrange)

astronomy, the upper portion of his See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house being fitted up as an See also:

• OBSERVATORY

observatory . He paid See also:

• SPECIAL

special See also:

• ATTENTION (from Lat. ad-tendo, await, expect; the condition of being " stretched " or " tense ")

attention to comets, and that of 1815 (See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period seventy-four years) bears his name in See also:

• COMMEMORATION

commemoration of its detection by him . He also took a leading part in the See also:

• DISCOVERY

discovery of the See also:

• MINOR
• MINOR (Lat. for smaller, lesser)
• MINOR, ROBERT CRANNELL (1839-1904)

minor See also:

• PLANETS, MINOR

planets, re-identified See also:

• CERES

Ceres on the 1st of January 1802, and detected See also:

• PALLAS, PETER SIMON (1741–1811)

Pallas on the 28th of See also:

• MARCH
• MARCH (1) (from Fr. marcher, to walk; the earliest sense in French appears to be " to trample," and the origin has usually been found in the Lat. marcus, hammer; Low Lat. marcare, to hammer; hence to beat the road with the regular tread of a soldier: cf.
• MARCH, AUZIAS (c. "1395-1458)
• MARCH, EARLS OF
• MARCH, FRANCIS ANDREW (1825– )

March following . His bold See also:

• HYPOTHESIS (from Gr. inrorcOivat, to put under; cf. Lat. suppositio, from sub-ponere)

hypothesis of their origin by the disruption of a See also:

• PRIMITIVE

primitive large See also:

• PLANET (Gr. ssXavirrns, a wanderer)

planet (Monatliche Correspondenz, vi . 88), although now discarded, received countenance from the finding of See also:

• JUNO

Juno by See also:

• HARDING, CHESTER (1792-1866)
• HARDING, JAMES DUFFIELD (1798-1863)

Harding, and of See also:

• VESTA (Gr. 'Errata)

Vesta by himself, in the precise regions of See also:

• CETUS (" The Whale ")

Cetus and See also:

• VIRGO (" the Virgin ")

Virgo where the nodes of such supposed planetary fragments should be situated . Olbers was deputed by his fellow-citizens to assist at the See also:

• BAPTISM

baptism of the See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

king of See also:

• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

Rome on the 9th of See also:

• JUNE

June 1811, and he was a member of the See also:

• CORPS (pronounced as in French, from which it is taken, being a late spelling of tors, from Lat. corpus, a body; cf. " corpse ")

corps legislatif in See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris 1812-1813 . He died on the and of March 184o, at the See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of eighty-one .

He was twice married, and one son survived him . See Biographische Skizzen verstorbener Bremischer Aerzte, by Dr G . Barkhausen (Bremen, 1844) ; Allgemeine geographische Ephemeriden, iv . 283 (1799) ; Abstracts Phil . Trans. iv . 268 (1843) Astronomische Nachrichten, xxii . 265 (See also:

• BESSEL, FRIEDRICH WILHELM (1784-1846)

Bessel), also appended to A . See also:

• ERMAN, PAUL (1764-1851)

Erman's Briefwechsel zwischen Olbers and Bessel (2 vols., See also:

• LEIPZIG

Leipzig, 1852) ; Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (S . See also:

• GUNTHER, JOHANN CHRISTIAN (1695-1723)

Gunther) ; R . See also:

• GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
• GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
• GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
• GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
• GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
• GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
• GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
• GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
• GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
• GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
• GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
• GRANT, U
• GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)

Grant, Hist. of Phys . See also:

• ASIR

Asir. p . 239; R .

See also:

• WOLF
• WOLF (Canis lupus)
• WOLF, FRIEDRICH AUGUST (1759-1824)
• WOLF, HUGO (1860-1903)
• WOLF, JOSEPH (1820-1899)

Wolf, Geschichte der Astronomie, p . 517 . The first two volumes of Dr C . Schilling's exhaustive See also:

• WORK

work, Wilhelm Olbers, sein Leben and See also:

• SEINE
• SEINE (Lat. Sequana)
• SEINE, or SEAN (O. Fr. seigne, mod. seine, Lat. sagena, Gr. vaytivrl, a draw-net)

seine Werke, appeared at See also:

• BERLIN
• BERLIN, CONGRESS AND TREATY OF
• BERLIN, ISAIAH (1725–1799)

Berlin in 1894 and 1900, a third and later See also:

• VOLUME

volume including his See also:

• PERSONAL

personal See also:

• CORRESPONDENCE
• CORRESPONDENCE (from med. scholastic Lat. correspondentia, corrcspondere, compounded of Lat. cum, with, and respond ere, to answer; cf. Fr. correspondance)

correspondence and See also:

• BIOGRAPHY (from the Gr. (3ios, life, and yp&4 , writing)

biography . A See also:

• LIST (O.E. lisle, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr. lisle)
• LIST, FRIEDRICH (1789-1846)

list of Olbers's contributions to scientific See also:

• PERIODICALS

periodicals is given at p. See also:

• XXXV

xxxv of the 3rd ed. of his Leichteste Methode, and his unique collection of See also:

• WORKS

works See also:

• RELATING

relating to comets now forms part of the Pulkowa library .