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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.
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.
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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 ...
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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.
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).
He created the copperplate etchings of sunspots for Galileo's Letters on Sunspots and the illustrations for Christoph Scheiner's Rosa Ursina. [3] Greuter is best known for his plans and maps. He created architectural prints depicting Villa Mondragone, Villa Parisi and other notable buildings. He also produced a large number of maps, most ...