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Johann (or Johannes) Fabricius was one of the first astronomers to observe sunspots with a telescope, and the first to publish an account of his observations.
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Berthold, G. 1894. Der Magister Johann Fabricius und die Sonnenflecken. Leipzig: Verlag von Veit and Co. (This remains the standard reference on Johann Fabricius).
Hufbauer, Karl. 1991. Exploring the sun: Solar science since Galileo. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Mitchell, Walter M. 1916. The history of the discovery of the solar spots: Johann Fabricius. Popular Astronomy 24: 153–162. (This offers an unabridged English translation of the portion of Johann Fabricius’ Narratio describing his sunspot observations and related conclusions, from which the above extract is taken verbatim).
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Wattenberg, Diedrich. 1964. David Fabricius: Der Astronomen Ostfieslands. Berlin/Treptow: Archenhold-Sternwarte.
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Charbonneau, P. (2023). Fabricius, Johann. In: Nicholson, P.D., Bartlett, J.L. (eds) Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-0738-1_433-3
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