Key facts
- Born
- ( 1723-02-17 ) 17 February 1723, Marbach am Neckar
- Died
- 20 February 1762 (1762-02-20) (aged 39), Göttingen
- Fields
- Astronomy
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Tobias
- Family name
- Mayer
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Duchy of Württemberg
- Place of birth
- Marbach am Neckar
- Place of death
- Göttingen
- Child
- Johann Tobias Mayer
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Position held
- director
- Languages spoken
- Latin
- Notable work
- reflecting circle
- Doctoral student
- Johann Heinrich Lambert
- Field of work
- selenography
- Image
- Tobias Meyer, seul portrait en couleurs connu.jpg
- Work location
- Nuremberg
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- Commons category
- Tobias Mayer
- date of birth
- 1723-02-17
- date of death
- 1762-02-20
- Commons Creator page
- Tobias Mayer
- manner of death
- natural causes
- cause of death
- typhus
- name in native language
- Tobias Mayer
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- WikiProject Mathematics
- birth name
- Johann Tobias Mayer
- archives at
- Göttingen State and University Library
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Encyclopedic overview
Birthplace of Tobias Mayer
Tobias Mayer (17 February 1723 – 20 February 1762) was a German astronomer famous for his studies of the Moon.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tobias Mayer” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.