1. Simon Marius was born in Gunzenhausen, near Nuremberg, but spent most of his life in the city of Ansbach.
14 Facts About Simon Marius
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Simon Marius is best known for being among the first observers of the four largest moons of Jupiter, and his publication of his discovery led to charges of plagiarism.
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Simon Marius wanted to attend the University of Konigsberg, but was unable to get a scholarship.
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Capra had a dispute with Galileo Galilei on the invention of the proportional compass and Simon Marius took his student's side in the argument.
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Capra published another book in 1607 which he actually plagiarised from Galileo, and Simon Marius was implicated in the act due to his prior association with Capra, even though this was after Simon Marius had left Padua.
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In 1614, Simon Marius published his work Mundus Iovialis describing the planet Jupiter and its moons.
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Simon Marius observed the Andromeda "nebula", which had been known to Persian astronomers of the Middle Ages.
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Discussion of Simon Marius' work is scarce, but what exists tends to note his skill as an observer, including:.
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Simon Marius drew conclusions about the structure of the universe from his observations of the Jovian moons and the stellar disks.
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The stellar disks he observed were spurious, but Simon Marius interpreted them to be physical disks, like the planetary disks visible through a telescope.
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Simon Marius concluded that since he could see stellar disks, the stars could not be as distant as was required in the Copernican world system, and he said that the appearance of the stars as seen through a telescope actually argued against Copernicus.
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Simon Marius showed no evident commitment to any theory but rather hypothesized based on telescopic observation.
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Simon Marius concluded from his observations of the Galilean moons that they must orbit Jupiter while Jupiter orbits the Sun.
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Therefore, Simon Marius concluded that the geocentric Tychonic system, in which the planets circle the Sun while the Sun circles the Earth, must be the correct world system, or model of the universe.