Hevelius works included on UNESCO heritage list

Five Johannes Hevelius works, including Selenographia and Machina coelestis, have been included on the National List of the UNESCO 'Memory of the World' Programme. The announcement was made on Monday by Marta Pawlik-Flisikowska of the Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences (PAN), located in Gdansk, northern Poland. Johannes Hevelius (1611-1687), born in Gdansk, was a town councillor, a well-educated lawyer and an astronomer.