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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. 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).

  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. Letters on Sunspots - Wikipedia

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    Mark Welser. When Jesuit Christoph Scheiner first observed sunspots in March 1611, he ignored them until he saw them again in October. Then, under the pseudonym Apelles latens post tabulam (Apelles hiding behind the painting), [14] he presented his description and conclusions about them in three letters to the Augsburg banker and scholar Mark Welser.

  6. Inside a "Studio Barn" Made for Painting—and Partying - AOL

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    In a barn on Serena Dugan's Shelter Island, New York, property, the studio is a creative haven for the Serena & Lily cofounder's art practice.

  7. Vädersolstavlan - Wikipedia

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    While the painting is arguably the oldest realistic depiction of a halo phenomenon — almost a century older than Christoph Scheiner's famous observation of a halo display over Rome in 1630 [51] — the phenomenon was apparently not entirely understood. The image contains several obvious misinterpretations and a few peculiarities.

  8. Camera obscura - Wikipedia

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    Galilei wrote about Castelli's technique to the German Jesuit priest, physicist, and astronomer Christoph Scheiner. [62] Scheiner's helioscope as illustrated in his book Rosa Ursina sive Sol (1626–30) From 1612 to at least 1630, Christoph Scheiner would keep on

  9. Jesuit College of Ingolstadt - Wikipedia

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    Christoph Scheiner observed sunspots in 1611 while at the college. This portrait was made for the Orban Hall by Christoph Thomas Scheffler around 1730. [52] The Canisius Seminary. Plans for the Jesuit college were prepared in 1555 by Georg Stern, a local architect. Due to Duke Albert's chronic shortage of money, the college was not opened until ...