Johannes Hevelius
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Johannes Hevelius was a councillor and mayor of Danzig , in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. As an astronomer, he gained a reputation as "the founder of lunar topography", and described ten new constellations, seven of which are still used by astronomers.
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