August Heinrich Petermann , 1822-78, German geographer, an authority on the geography of Africa and the Arctic. He had (1847-54) a cartographical establishment in London and in 1854 became director of the Perthes Geographical Institution, Gotha. In 1855 he founded Petermanns Geographische Mitteilungen, a geographical journal.
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History of the development of the crystallographic goniometer.(Special Issue: Goniometers!)
The Mineralogical Record; 11/1/1998; Burchard, Ulrich; 29793 words;
... the ocular, and used a micrometer carriage to center the vertex on the object stage. Karl Ernst Heinrich Schmidt (1822-1894), the lecturer for chemistry at the University at Dorpat (now Tartu, Estonia), received his education in Berlin through Heinrich Rose (1795-1864) and Friedrich Wohler (1800-1882); Schmidt ...
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