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    Christoph (Christophorus) Grienberger (also variously spelled Gruemberger, Bamberga, Bamberger, Banbergiera, Gamberger, Ghambergier, Granberger, Panberger)...
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    of students that Clavius taught is unclear, but in a letter from Christoph Grienberger to Clavius in 1595, it is stated that at that time, Clavius had...
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  • mathematician Christoph Grienberger. Jean Tarde learned several more things about sunspots from Christoph Grienberger. Among these Christoph Grienberger told Jean...
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    number of sides. The last such calculation was performed in 1630 by Christoph Grienberger who used polygons with 1040 sides. Circumference is used by some...
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  • Willebrord Snellius reached 34 digits in 1621, and Austrian astronomer Christoph Grienberger arrived at 38 digits in 1630 using 1040 sides. Christiaan Huygens...
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    did a number of European scholars. Jesuits (such as Clavius, Christoph Grienberger, Christoph Scheiner, Odo Van Maelcote) supported the Tychonic system....
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    architect; engaged in controversy with Galileo on the subject of comets Christoph Grienberger (1561–1636) – Jesuit astronomer after whom the crater Gruemberger...
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    Catholic priests at the time were against Galileo's discoveries. Christoph Grienberger, one of the Jesuit scholars, was sympathetic to Galileo's theories...
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    Jesuit astronomers by that time had repeated his observations. Christoph Grienberger, one of the Jesuit scholars on the faculty, sympathized with Galileo's...
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    644–650. doi:10.5951/MT.53.8.0644. JSTOR 27956272. Arndt, Jörg; Haenel, Christoph (2001). Pi - Unleashed. Springer. ISBN 978-3-642-56735-3. Genuys, F. (1958)...
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