Knutzen Peak [SEP] continent
Knutzen Peak
Knutzen Peak is a sharp, rocky summit of elevation standing on the north edge of Taylor Ledge in the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains, Antarctica. It surmounts Branscomb Glacier to the east and south.
The peak was named by US-ACAN in 2006 after Donald H. Knutzen, topographic engineer with the U.S. Geological Survey in the Sentinel Range, 1979–80.
Location.
Knutzen Peak is located at , which is southwest of Mount Shinn, west-northwest of Branscomb Peak and north of Brichebor Peak
as the prediction had been made a year earlier in the “Leipziger Gelehrte Anzeigen”. He also suggested that Knutzen had not sufficiently proved the respective identities of the 1698 and 1744 comets. Knutzen and his students ignored Heyn's reference to Euler, just as they did Euler's original criticism.
Knutzen's understanding of scientific and mathematical matters was inadequate for advancing the discussion of the more technical aspects of physics. Knutzen did not belong to that “small elite” of scientists on the continent who understood the details of Newtonian