Simon Marius and His Research

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gaab, Hans (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Leich, Pierre (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Historical & Cultural Astronomy,
• Subjects: Physics.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy-Observations.; Solar system.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; Solar and Heliospheric Physics .

The margravial court astronomer Simon Marius, was involved in all of the new observations made with the recently invented telescope in the early part of the seventeenth century. He also discovered the Moons of Jupiter in January 1610, but lost the priority dispute with Galileo Galilei, because he mi...