Title

Half-title of Rosa Ursina, by Christopher Scheiner, 1630. Artist: Unknown

Caption

Half-title of Rosa Ursina, by Christopher Scheiner, 1630. German astronomer and mathematician Scheiner (1573-1650) used telescopes invented by Galileo to make over 2000 observations of the Sun, recording sunspots in the process. As a Jesuit, Scheiner held the belief that the Sun, and the heavens generally, had to be perfect, and that sunspots were shadows cast by satellites of the Sun onto its face as they passed across it. This brought him into a bitter dispute with Galileo, who was of the opinion that sunspots were features which formed on the surface of the Sun itself. Scheiner attacked Galileo in Rosa Ursina, before Galileo's trial before the Inquisition in 1633.
Oxford Science Archive

Date

1630

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19B64_111

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

30,0Mb (3,1Mb) / 9,1in x 12,8in / 2737 x 3829 (300dpi)

Keywords

Germany religious German arts country sun religion science book solar system astronomy Christianity location Catholic Catholicism century Roman Catholic dispute literature B&W MONOCHROME 17th century black & white black and white B W Roman Catholicism sunspot seventeenth century Oxford Science Archive Jesuit Rosa Ursina solar astronomy Unknown Christopher Galileo Galileo Galilei Galilei Christopher Scheiner Scheiner Christopher Scheiner Galileo Galilei