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Simon Marius ( latinized form of Simon Mayr; 10 January 1573 – 5 January 1625) [1] was a German astronomer. He was born in Gunzenhausen, near Nuremberg, but spent most of his life in the city of Ansbach. He is best known for being among the first observers of the four largest moons of Jupiter, and his publication of his discovery led to ...
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Mar 25, 2024 · Simon Marius (born January 10, 1573, Gunzenhausen, Bavaria [Germany]—died December 26, 1624, Anspach) was a German astronomer who named the four largest moons of Jupiter: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto. All four are named after mythological figures with whom Jupiter fell in love. He and Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei both claimed to ...
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Jan 20, 2021 · Simon Marius (1573-1625) On January 20 (or January 10 according to the old Julian calendar ), 1573, German astronomer Simon Marius was born. Marius was pupil of Tycho Brahe, one of the earliest users of the telescope and the first in print to make mention the Andromeda nebula. He studied and named the four largest moons of Jupiter that he ...
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Dec 15, 2016 · The court astronomer in Ansbach, Germany, Simon Marius began writing down his notes of three unusual objects near the planet Jupiter at the end of December 1609; a fourth appeared a few days later ...
Simon Marius. (1573-1624) Marius [1] was born in Gunzenhausen in the territory of the Markgrafschaft of Ansbach (south Germany). His father was mayor of the city in 1576. From 1586 to 1601, he studied (with interruptions) at the Markgrafschaft's Lutheran academy at Heilsbronn. During this period he became interested in astronomy, and his ...
Oct 19, 2023 · Simon Marius, known in Latin as Simon Mayr, was born on January 10, 1573, in Gunzenhausen, near Nuremberg, Germany. Emerging during an era of unprecedented advances in astronomy, Marius is most prominently recognized for his independent discovery of the four major moons of Jupiter around the same time as Galileo Galilei.
Simon Marius. 1573-1624. German astronomer among the first to use the telescope for viewing celestial objects. He discovered Jupiter's satellites, if not before then shortly after Galileo, but waited until 1614 to publish his observations. Marius computed tables of the mean periodic motions of the Jovian satellites, directed attention to ...
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