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1611 CE - 1687 CE: Life of the Polish astronomer Johannes Hevelius.
1611 CE: The astronomer Johannes Hevelius is born in Danzig (modern Gdańsk) in Poland.
1641 CE: Johannes Hevelius builds his Stellaeburg
observatory in Danzig, Poland.
1647 CE: Johannes Hevelius' Selenographia containing his map of the Moon is published.
1664 CE: Johannes Hevelius is made one of the first foreign fellows of the Royal Society in London.
1668 CE: Johannes Hevelius' Cometographia is published.
1673 CE: Johannes Hevelius' Machina coelestis (part one) is published.
1679 CE: Johannes Hevelius' Machina coelestis (part two) is published.
1679 CE: Edmond Halley compares astronomical data with Johannes Hevelius in Danzig.
1687 CE: The astronomer Johannes Hevelius dies in Danzig (modern Gdańsk) in Poland.
1690 CE: Johannes Hevelius' Firmamentum Sobiescianum is published.
1690 CE: Johannes Hevelius' Prodromus Astronomiae, which contains his star map, is published.