Christoph Scheiner SJ (25 July 1573 (or 1575) – 18 June 1650) was a Jesuit priest, physicist and astronomer in Ingolstadt. Scheiner was born in Markt...
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Scheiner is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include: Artuš Scheiner (1863–1938), Czech painter and illustrator Christoph Scheiner (1573/75–1650)...
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Letters on Sunspots (section Christoph Scheiner)
not aware of before he wrote the Letters on Sunspots. When Jesuit Christoph Scheiner first observed sunspots in March 1611, he ignored them until he saw...
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telescope. The first machina helioscopica or helioscope was designed by Christoph Scheiner (1575 –1650) to assist his sunspot observations. In the context of...
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German Jesuit priest, physicist and astronomer Christoph Scheiner. From 1612 to at least 1630 Christoph Scheiner would keep on studying sunspots and constructing...
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Jesuit priest, physicist, and astronomer Christoph Scheiner. From 1612 to at least 1630, Christoph Scheiner would keep on studying sunspots and constructing...
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to a long and bitter feud with the Jesuit Christoph Scheiner. In the middle was Mark Welser, to whom Scheiner had announced his discovery, and who asked...
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Scheiner is a lunar impact crater that lies to the west of the enormous walled plain Clavius. To the southeast near the rim of Clavius is the crater Blancanus...
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published extensively about the astronomer Christoph Scheiner but also Oswald von Wolkenstein, Christoph Grienberger, Giovanni Antonio Scopoli, Felice...
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Alexandria described pantographs in his work Mechanics. In 1603, Christoph Scheiner used a pantograph to copy and scale diagrams, and wrote about the...
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