Talk:Franz Meyer

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@Nawennschon: Hi, I saw your Helpdesk query and have some questions:

Please can you add citations for unsourced or partially sourced sections such as education or first activities?
Could you check the translation? I don't have the technical vocabulary myself, but "invisible drawing offices" doesn't look right (and I can't find the phrase elsewhere in a Google search) and I think "eine MEYERsche Konstruktion" must mean something like a Meyer design, not "a MEYER construction". Also "Kugelmeyer" and "Kettenmeyer" should be translated.
Please could you clarify the achievements? Meyer didn't invent the telescope or the parabolic mirror. The references are offline, so I can't check.

answer to the three items

1. added citations (I just got it)

2. translation was incorrect: invisible -> unnoticed construction -> design

3. achievements: see Large_Refractor

(mount for very big astronomical telescopes)

He was the main designer of the planetarium made at Carl Zeiss Jena for the "Deutsches Museum München", opened 1925. [1] https://blog.deutsches-museum.de/2023/10/13/dem-himmel-so-nah. I will search for a reference in english. --Nawennschon (talk) 20:18, 24 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]