Johann Leonhard Rost
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Johann Leonhard Rost (14 August 1688 – 22 March 1727) was a German astronomer and author from Nuremberg. He wrote under the alias Meletaon.
The crater Rost on the Moon is named after him.
His brother was a famous doctor from Nuremberg, he is mostly known to be the personal doctor of Anna Maria Franziska of Saxe-Lauenburg.
Bibliography[]
- Meletaon, "Schau-Platz der gelährten und galanten Welt", 1711.
- Meletaon, "Die Unglückseelige Atalanta", 1717.
- Rost, J. L., "Atlas Portatilis Coelestis", 1723.
External links[]
- Atlas Portatilis Coelestis, 1723 - Full digital facsimile, Linda Hall Library.
- Biography & Bibliography by Hans Gaab and Olaf Simons
Categories:
- 1688 births
- 1727 deaths
- 18th-century German astronomers
- Members of the Prussian Academy of Sciences
- Scientists from Nuremberg
- University of Altdorf alumni
- Leipzig University alumni
- German astronomer stubs