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Christoph Scheiner

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Scheiner, Christoph 

Born July 25, 1575, in Wald, near the city of Mindelheim; died July 18,1650, in Neisse. German astronomer, physicist, and mathematician.

Scheiner’s principal works were in the field of observational astronomy. In 1611, independently of Galileo and I. Fabricius, he discovered spots and faculae on the sun and determined the period of the sun’s rotation and the tilt of its axis relative to the plane of the ecliptic. In 1613, Scheiner constructed a telescope that is considered the world’s first refractor.
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These pictorial tactics--movie-like visual sequences, the innovative character of which Biagioli overestimates--which represent periodicity and change in time, are the central focus of chapter 3, on the sunspot controversy between Galileo and Christoph Scheiner.
Galileo's Instruments of Credit: Telescopes, Images, Secrecy by Dupre, Sven / Renaissance Quarterly
We see Gassendi getting help with Greek, collecting and distributing astronomical observations, and working to reconcile hostile parties, such as Galileo and the Jesuit Christoph Scheiner, or Descartes and the artisan Ferrier.
Lettres Latines by Jones, Matthew L. / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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