This chapter explores the formative years of Johannes Hevelius, from his disrupted education in Danzig during the Thirty Years' War to his growing passion for astronomy sparked by a solar eclipse. It highlights his transition from managing a family brewery to becoming a renowned astronomer, culminating in the construction of his observatory and the creation of the influential lunar map, 'Selenographia.'

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