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1573-1650 German astronomer among the first to detect sunspots telescopically (1611) and the first to publish such observations (1612). Hoping to preserve the incorruptibility of the Aristotelian heavens, Scheiner interpreted the spots as small stars...
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Christoph Scheiner SJ (b. 25 July 1573 (or 1575) in Markt Wald near Mindelheim in Swabia, earlier markgravate Burgau, possession of the House of Habsburg; d. 18 July 1650 in Neisse in Silesia) was a Jesuit father, physicist and astronomer in Ingolstadt,...


 

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