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Description Christoph Scheiner and a fellow Jesuit scientist trace sunspots in Italy in about 1625. Illustration from Rosa Ursina by Christoph Scheiner. p. 150. Scanned from original at Houghton Library, Harvard University. Call # GC6.Sch256.630r
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Source GC6.Sch256.630r, Houghton Library, Harvard University
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Christoph Scheiner (1575–1650) wikidata:Q57466 s:en:Author:Christopher Scheiner q:it:Christoph Scheiner
Christoph Scheiner
Description physicist, astronomer, university teacher and mathematician
Date of birth/death 25 July 1575 Edit this at Wikidata 18 July 1650 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Markt Wald Nysa
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Christoph Scheiner's helioscope as illustrated in his book Rosa Ursina sive Sol (1626–30)

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