Johann Leonhard Rost (12 February 1688 – 22 March 1727) was a German

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and author from

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. He wrote under the alias Meletaon. The crater

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on the

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is named after him. His brother Johannes Carolus Rost was a famous doctor from Nuremberg, he is mostly known to be the personal doctor of Anna Maria Franziska of Saxe-Lauenburg.

Bibliography

* Meletaon, "Schau-Platz der gelährten und galanten Welt", 1711. * Meletaon, "Die Unglückseelige Atalanta", 1717. * Rost, J. L., "Atlas Portatilis Coelestis", 1723.

External links

''Atlas Portatilis Coelestis'', 1723
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1688 births 1727 deaths 18th-century German astronomers Members of the Prussian Academy of Sciences Scientists from Nuremberg University of Altdorf alumni Leipzig University alumni {{Germany-astronomer-stub