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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