Zucchi, Niccolo (1586-1670)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4121. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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Born in Parma, Italy, became a Jesuit, and in 1608, or perhaps 1616, used a lens to observe the image produced by a concave mirror, the first reflecting telescope. He described it in a book Optica Philosophica, in 1652. He was the first to observe the spots on Jupiter, in 1630. In about 1640, he is reported to have examined spots on Mars, as discovered by Fontana, but this must be regarded skepti...

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