Johan Maurits Mohr

See also: Mohr

Johan Maurits Mohr is a missionary and a astronomer Dutch, born in 1716 and died in 1775.

It goes to Batavia (today Djakarta) to preach there.

Impassioned by the Astronomy, it sets up a large observatory whose power was famous at its time. It receives in particular the visit of James Cook (1728-1779) which describes in eulogistic term, in its account of voyage, the installation of Mohr. This one plays a great part in the scientific study of future the Indonesia.

After its death, its observatory falls in disuse and ends up disappearing.

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