Ulrich Sperberg points our attention at a recently published meteor related paper:

Eduard Heis, an early pioneer in meteor research

This article has been published in Hist. Geo Space. Sci., 12, 163–170, 2021, by Ulrich Sperberg.

 

Abstract: At the beginning of the 19th century, meteor observations were not well established. One of its pioneers, who observed meteors on a regular basis, was Eduard Heis in Münster, Germany. We summarise the life of this scientist. Besides his main task of teaching mathematics in Aachen and Münster, he observed atmospheric phenomena and variable stars with exceptional perseverance. He was an editor of Wochenschrift für Astronomie and contributed to the circulation of astronomical reports and knowledge. We focus on his contributions to meteor astronomy, in which he predated the work of Schiaparelli by 30 years.

You can download this paper for free: https://hgss.copernicus.org/articles/12/163/2021/ (online publication) or https://hgss.copernicus.org/articles/12/163/2021/hgss-12-163-2021.pdf (8 pages).

 

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