{"id":53816,"date":"2022-09-28T21:32:19","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T02:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/heis-edward\/"},"modified":"2022-09-28T21:32:19","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T02:32:19","slug":"heis-edward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/heis-edward\/","title":{"rendered":"Heis, Edward"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Heis, Edward<\/h2>\n<p>Astronomer . Born Cologne, Germany, 1806 ; died  Munster, 1877. He taught mathematics and sciences in the gymnasium of Cologne (1827-1837), in the high school at Aix-la-Chapelle (1837-1852), and in the Academy (now University) of Munster (1852-1877). His treatises dealt with his observations of auroral light, sun-spots, comets, zodiacal light, etc. During the Kulturkampf he championed Catholicity. Founded the Journal of Astronomy, Meteorology and Geography. First ascertained the point of departure of meteors. Drew up a chart of naked-eye stars visible from Central Europe, which indicated 5,421 stars, included the first authentic map of the Milky Way, and has been used as a basis for other star charts. Made valuable observations of variable stars. <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heis, Edward Astronomer . Born Cologne, Germany, 1806 ; died Munster, 1877. He taught mathematics and sciences in the gymnasium of Cologne (1827-1837), in the high school at Aix-la-Chapelle (1837-1852), and in the Academy (now University) of Munster (1852-1877). His treatises dealt with his observations of auroral light, sun-spots, comets, zodiacal light, etc. During the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/heis-edward\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Heis, Edward&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}