He was born in 1784 in Minden, Brandenburg. At age
He was born in 1784 in Minden, Brandenburg. At age 20, he wrote a paper on Halley's comet, which led to a career choice of astronomy over shipping. In 1810, the Prussian government charged him with construction of an observatory at Königsberg; later, he would explain parallax and was the first to calculate distances to stars other than the sun. These are some of the career highlights of, for ten points, what man who first derived the solution to Laplace's equation in cylindrical coordinates?
He was born in 1784 in Minden, Brandenburg. At age 20, he wrote a paper on Halley's comet, which led to a career choice of astronomy over shipping.
Friedrich Wilhelm {Bessel}