Johannes Fabricius was a Frisian astronomer who, working with his father David Fabricius in 1611, became one of the first Europeans to observe and publish a description of sunspots, using a camera obscura to project and safely study the image of the sun.
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Johann Goldsmid, better known by his Latinized name Johann(es) Fabricius (8 January 1587-19 March 1616), eldest son of David Fabricius (1564-1617), was a Frisian astronomer and a modern era discoverer of sunspots in 1611, preceded by Thomas Harriot and followed by Galileo Galilei.
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