Karl Mollweide
Karl Brandan Mollweide (3 February 1774 – 10 March 1825) was a German mathematician and astronomer who taught in Halle and Leipzig. In trigonometry, he rediscovered the formula now known as Mollweide's formula. He invented a map projection called the Mollweide projection. • Illustration — Karl Mollweide
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Karl Mollweide
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- Name
- Karl Mollweide
- Born
- 3 February 1774
- Birthplace
- Wolfenbüttel, Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Holy Roman Empire
- Birth Name
- Karl Brandan Mollweide
- Died
- 10 March 1825
- Place of death
- Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony
- Occupation
- Mathematician, astronomer
- Nationality
- Germany · Holy Roman Empire
- Known for
- Mollweide projection · Mollweide's formula
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• Name — Karl Mollweide • Born — 3 February 1774 • Birthplace — Wolfenbüttel, Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Holy Roman Empire • Birth Name — Karl Brandan Mollweide • Died — 10 March 1825 • Place of death — Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony • Occupation — Mathematician, astronomer
Full-sky map by the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) of the oldest light in the universe: a "baby picture" of the universe. Colors indicate "warmer" (red) and "cooler" (blue) spots. The oval shape is a projection to display the whole sky, similar to the way the globe of the Earth can be represented as an oval. The microwave light captured in this picture is from 379,000 years after the
NASA/WMAP Science Team · http: (image link, converted from TIF to JPG)
Map of the CMB temperature, based on data obtained over the full four-year COBE mission, at each of the three DMR frequencies (31.5, 53, and 90 GHz) following dipole subtraction.
The COBE datasets were developed by the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center under the guidance of the COBE Science Working Group. · http
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1774
Karl Mollweide was born on 3 February 1774.
1825
Karl Mollweide died on 10 March 1825.
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