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Bookmark or Share- Christoph Scheiner - Encyclopedia.comSCHEINER, CHRISTOPH. (b. Wald, near Mindelheim, Swabia, Germany, 25 July 1573; d. Neisse, Silesia [now Nysa, Poland], 18 June 1650) astronomy. Scheiner attended the Jesuit Latin school at Augsburg and the Jesuit College at Landsberg before he joined the Society of Jesus in 1595. In 1600 he was sent to Ingolstadt, where he studied philosophy and ...
- The Galileo Project | Science | Christoph ScheinerScheiner's talents lay in the mathematical sciences and instruments. Early in his career he became an expert on the mathematics of sundials and also invented a pantograph (a device for copying and enlarging drawings).
- Christoph Scheiner - The Society of Catholic ScientistsScheiner was the first person to build a telescope with two convex lenses (a great improvement over existing telescopes that had been proposed but not actually built by Kepler) and used them for his observations.
- Christoph Scheiner (1575–1650) | High Altitude ObservatoryThe Jesuit astronomer Christoph Scheiner was born on July 25, 1575. He started his studies in 1601 at Ingolstadt, where he later taught mathematics from 1610 to 1616. Portrait of Christoph Scheiner from the Stadt Müseum Ingolstadt.
- Christoph Scheiner - WikipediaChristoph Scheiner SJ (25 July 1573 (or 1575) – 18 June 1650) was a Jesuit priest, physicist and astronomer in Ingolstadt. Biography. Augsburg/Dillingen: 1591–1605. Scheiner was born in Markt Wald near Mindelheim in Swabia, earlier margravate Burgau, possession of the House of Habsburg.
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