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Christoph Scheiner (1573-1650) was a German Jesuit priest, mathematician, and astronomer who taught at the University of Ingolstadt. From 1611 he made systematic telescopic observations of sunspots and, in his 1613 work Tres epistolae de maculis solaribus, argued that they were objects transiting th...
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Edward Walter Maunder was a British astronomer whose work at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, concentrated on sunspots and other solar phenomena. He documented a prolonged scarcity of observed sunspots between about 1645 and 1715, a period later named the Maunder Minimum. His research remains relev...
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