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Anton Maria Schyrleus of Rheita

His map, however, did not come into standard use, as it was superseded by those made by Hevelius and the Jesuits Giovanni Battista Riccioli and Francesco Maria Grimaldi (1650–1651).

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By extension, the lunar valley Vallis Rheita, where the crater stands at the valley’s northwestern end, is also named after Schyrleus.

Rheita

Anton Maria Schyrleus of Rheita (1597-1660), the Austrian-Czech astronomer after whom the crater and the valley are named

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