Simon Marius (1573 to 1625) was a German astronomer, born Simon Mayr at Gunzenhausen near Nuremberg, who spent most of his life in Ansbach. He studied at the Margrave's academy in Heilsbronn, was appointed the Margrave's official mathematician, and in 1601 went to Prague and then to Padua to study medicine. In 1609 he published the first German translation of Euclid's Elements and built his own telescope. He is best known as one of the first observers of the four largest moons of Jupiter, which he described in Mundus Iovialis in 1614. Galileo accused him of plagiarism, and his reputation suffered for nearly three hundred years until a committee in the Netherlands in 1903 judged that his discoveries were independent.
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was a German astronomer
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Marius was the son of Reichart Mayr
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was a German astronomer
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was a German astronomer
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He is best known for being among the first observers of the four largest moons of Jupiter
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was a German astronomer
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to study medicine at the University of Padua
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