Johann Goldsmid

Johann Goldsmid, better known by his Latinized name Johann(es) Fabricius (8 January 1587 – 19 March 1616), eldest son of David Fabricius (1564–1617), was a Frisian/German astronomer and a discoverer of sunspots (in 1610), independently of Galileo Galilei.

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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