Latest Johannes Fabricius Stories

By Karen C. Fox, NASA's Goddard Space Flight CenterIn March of 1611, a German medical student named Johannes Fabricius left school at Leiden in Holland carrying several of the new-fangled telescopes that were beginning to appear in the Netherlands. He was off to visit his father "“ the well-known astronomer and astrologer David Fabricius who had had a heralded career working with Europe's celebrity astronomers, Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler.In 1611, David Fabricius lived in Osteel, a town...