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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1. Johannes Fabricius (Wikidata)
P570 (date of death): year
+1616-03-19T00:00:00Z
P570 (date of death): full date
+1616-03-19T00:00:00Z
P27 (country of citizenship): Germany
Q183
P20 (place of death): Dresden, Germany
Q1731
P19 (place of birth): Resterhafe, Germany
Q2145988
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