Simon Marius (1573-1624),German astronomer. Marius,independently of Galileo,discovered the four major moons of Jupiter. In his work Mundus Jovialis (The world of Jupiter,1614) he gave them the names they are known by today; Io,Europa,Ganymede and Callisto. He was an early user of telescopes,using them to study the Andromeda galaxy. This woodcut portrait,from 1614,is said to include the first image of a telescope (across bottom) | |
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