Johann Leonhard Rost [SEP] place of death
Johann Leonhard Rost
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.
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
the Elder and Jan Lijnsz Rogge. In total he published around 70 titles. He also made 32 translations, mainly of theological works (from English and Swiss authors in particular) but also in science (Johann Leonhard Rost and Julius Bernhard von Rohr) and law (Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui). There were geographical works by Laugier de Tassy and Jonas Hanway.
Schagen's 1745 translation of the 1743 German history of the Mennonites by Simeon Friedrich Rues was a substantially improved edition and became a major work in the field.