Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger

"Bohnenberger" redirects here. For the lunar crater, see Bohnenberger (crater).
Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger.

Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger (15 June 1765 – 19 April 1831) was a German astronomer born at Simmozheim, Württemberg. He studied at the University of Tübingen. In 1798, he was appointed professor of mathematics and astronomy at the University.

He published: Anleitung zur geographischen Ortsbestimmung, (1795); Astronomie, (1811); and Anfangsgründe der höhern Analysis, (1812).

In 1817, he discovered the gyroscope effect.

He died at Tübingen. The lunar crater Bohnenberger is named after him.

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