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Christoph Scheiner SJ (25 July 1573 (or 1575) – 18 June 1650) was a Jesuit priest, physicist and astronomer in Ingolstadt . Biography. Augsburg/Dillingen: 1591–1605. Scheiner was born in Markt Wald near Mindelheim in Swabia, earlier margravate Burgau, possession of the House of Habsburg.
The Jesuit astronomer Christoph Scheiner was born on July 25, 1575. He started his studies in 1601 at Ingolstadt, where he later taught mathematics from 1610 to 1616. Portrait of Christoph Scheiner from the Stadt Müseum Ingolstadt.
Christoph Scheiner (1573-1650) Christoph Scheiner was born in Wald, near Mindelheim in Swabia (southwest Germany), on 25 July 1573. He attended the Jesuit Latin school in Augsburg, continued his studies in the Jesuit college at Landsberg, and entered the Jesuit order in 1595.
May 23, 2018 · scheiner, christoph(b. Wald, near Mindelheim, Swabia, Germany, 25 July 1573; d. Neisse, Silesia [now Nysa, Poland], 18 June 1650)astronomy.Scheiner attended the Jesuit Latin school at Augsburg and the Jesuit College at Landsberg before he joined the Society of Jesus [1] in 1595.
…and entered a debate with Christoph Scheiner (1573–1650), a German Jesuit and professor of mathematics at Ingolstadt, about the nature of sunspots (of which Galileo was an independent discoverer).
Christoph Scheiner was a German Jesuit priest, physicist and astronomer. View one larger picture. Biography. Christoph Scheiner's day of birth is certain, 25 July, but historians have argued whether he was born in 1573 or 1575. Both years of birth are given in an almost equal number of obituaries.
Christoph Scheiner. 1573-1650. German astronomer among the first to detect sunspots telescopically (1611) and the first to publish such observations (1612).
Christoph Scheiner was born in Wald in 1573 and entered the Jesuit Order in 1565. In 1601 he moved to Germany to study philosophy at Ingolstadt, where in 1610 he was made a professor of mathematics and of the Hebrew language.
Dec 24, 2016 · Christoph Scheiner was a German mathematician, physicist, and astronomer, who was one of the first to observe sunspots. After attending the Jesuit Latin school in Augsburg and the Jesuit college at Landsberg, Scheiner entered the Jesuit order in 1593. (In 1617, he was ordained a priest.)
Feb 27, 2024 · This contribution examines the Jesuit polymath Christoph Scheiner’s 1619 work, The Eye, that is, The Foundation of Optics, in which he argues for the revolutionary position that the retina, not the crystalline lens, is the seat of visual sensation.
