Transcription: In actual fact, the discoverer of sunspots was an amateur astronomer, Fabricius, who saw them through a telescope at some time before December 1, 1611. He immediately published his results in his work, Spots Observed on the Sun. He showed the spots to his father, David Fabricius, who was the discoverer of the first known variable star, Mira Ceti, in the constellation of the whale. But the elder Fabricius could not defend his son's claim to priority because he was murdered by a peasant whom he accused of having stolen one of his geese. We must also add that an Englishman, Thomas Harriot, observ ... File Comment Made in Intimate Arts
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