Johannes Fabricius ( German: Johannes Fabricius , January 8, 1587 , Resterhave , East Frisia , Lower Saxony - circa 1615 , Dresden , Upper Saxony ) - Saxon astronomer. The son of David Fabricius .
| Johannes Fabricius | |
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| Johannes Fabricius | |
| Date of Birth | January 8, 1587 |
| Place of Birth | Resterhave |
| Date of death | January 10, 1617 (30 years old) |
| Place of death | Dresden |
| A country | Friesland, Germany |
| Scientific field | astronomy |
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Tutulny sheet works J. Fabricius
The first (or at least simultaneously and quite independently of Galileo and Scheiner ) discovered sunspots ( 1610/1611 ), their movement along the disk of the sun and the rotation of the sun. His observations are presented in the work “ De Maculis in Sole observatis, et apparente earum cum Sole conversione, Narratio etc. "(" Description of the spots observed on the Sun moving along with the Sun ", 1611).
Sources
- Fabricius, John // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.