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  2. Christoph Scheiner - Wikipedia

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    Scheiner was born in Markt Wald near Mindelheim in Swabia, earlier margravate Burgau, possession of the House of Habsburg.He attended the Jesuit St. Salvator Grammar School in Augsburg from May 1591 until 24 October 1595.

  3. Roblox - Wikipedia

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    Roblox occasionally hosts real-life and virtual events. They have in the past hosted events such as BloxCon, which was a convention for ordinary players on the platform. [45] Roblox operates annual Easter egg hunts [51] and also hosts an annual event called the "Bloxy Awards", an awards ceremony that also functions as a fundraiser. The 2020 ...

  4. Mark Welser - Wikipedia

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    Christoph Scheiner observing sunspots. In late 1611, the Jesuit Christoph Scheiner, a mathematics teacher at Ingolstadt, using the pseudonym Apelles latens post tabulam (Apelles hiding behind the painting), [nb 1] wrote three letters to Welser, claiming the discovery of sunspots.

  5. Pantograph - Wikipedia

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    Diagram illustrating the principles used by William Wallace's eidograph. The ancient Greek engineer Hero of Alexandria described pantographs in his work Mechanics. [1]In 1603, [2] Christoph Scheiner used a pantograph to copy and scale diagrams, and wrote about the invention over 27 years later, in "Pantographice seu Ars delineandi res quaslibet per parallelogrammum lineare seu cavum" (Rome 1631).

  6. Discourse on Comets - Wikipedia

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    [8]: 239 The pamphlet was a major factor in the alienation of the Jesuits from Galileo, who had previously been broadly supportive of his ideas, even despite his attacks on Christoph Scheiner. [ 10 ] While Guiducci and Galileo were working in the Discourse , a second anonymous Jesuit pamphlet appeared in Milan - Assemblea Celeste Radunata ...

  7. Scheiner - Wikipedia

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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), Jesuit priest, physicist and astronomer (born c. 1573) David Scheiner (born 1938), American physician and activist; Elliot Scheiner (born 1947), American record producer and ...

  8. File:Scheiner, Christoph – Oculus, 1619 – BEIC 4691354.jpg

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  9. Solar observation - Wikipedia

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    Likewise Christoph Scheiner had probably been observing the spots using an improved helioscope of his own design. Galileo and Scheiner, neither of whom knew of the work of Harriot or Fabricius vied for the credit for the discovery.