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Tobias Mayer | |
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| Born | 17 February 1723 |
| Died | 20 February 1762 (aged 39) |
| Nationality | German |
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| Fields | Astronomy |
Tobias Mayer (17 February 1723 – 20 February 1762) was a German astronomer famous for his studies of the Moon.
He was born at Marbach, in Württemberg, and brought up at Esslingen in poor circumstances. A self-taught mathematician, he earned a living by teaching mathematics while still a youth. He had already published two original geometrical works when, in 1746, he entered J. B. Homann's cartographic establishment at Nuremberg. Here he introduced many improvements in mapmaking, and gained a scientific reputation which led (in 1751) to his election to the chair of economy and mathematics at the University of Göttingen. In 1754 he became superintendent of the observatory, where he worked until his death in 1762.[1] He has been created with developing an early form of regression analysis in 1750, though 50 years earlier Isaac Newton had used similar methods.[2]
- ^ Clerke 1911.
- ^ Belenkiy, A.; Echague, E. V. (2016-02-01). "Groping toward linear regression analysis: Newton's analysis of Hipparchus' equinox observations". The Observatory. 136: 1–22. ISSN 0029-7704.