Christopher Scheiner

Christoph Scheiner SJ (25 July 1573 (or 1575) – 18 June 1650) was a Jesuit priest, physicist and astronomer in Ingolstadt.

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Johann Goldsmid, Galileo Galilei, Christopher Scheiner of Germany, and Thomas Herriot all claimed to have discovered sunspots in 1611. They all saw them through telescopes, drew them by hand, but none really understood what they were seeing