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The dean of Indiana painters, Steele built a home and studio on a large plot of land west of Nashville near Belmont and made it his permanent home. Its proximity to Indiana University in Bloomington allowed Steele to accept a position as artist in residence there in 1922. An art association was incorporated in 1926 with Carl Graf as the first ...
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 ...
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.
Christoph Scheiner, Jesuit censorship and the Trial of Galileo, in: Perspectives on Science 4 (1996), 283–320. Gorman, Michael John; The Scientific Counter-revolution. Mathematics, natural philosophy and experimentalism in Jesuit culture 1580–c.1670 [PhD thesis], European University Institute, Florenz 1998.
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"Apelles", a pseudonym used by Jesuit Christoph Scheiner in writing on sunspots; Apelles, a synonym for the butterfly genus Glaucopsyche; HMS Apelles, an 1808 British Royal Navy ship; Matthäus Apelles von Löwenstern (1594–1648), German psalmist, musician and statesman
Galilei wrote about Castelli's technique to the German Jesuit priest, physicist, and astronomer Christoph Scheiner. [64] 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