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2) Samuel Heinrich Schwabe is also AstronomyDoc

Samuel Heinrich Schwabe was born as the eldest of 11 children of a doctors family in Dessau/Germany. His father was doctor of the Duke, his mother daughter of the local pharmacist.

At age 7 he came to school (Dessauer Hauptschule) where he got to know philantrophism and humanism, being supported by Leopold III. Friedrich Franz, Fürst von Anhalt-Dessau. From 1809 he studied at the "königlich-preußischen Universität in Berlin".

After his father died he returned to Dessau and continued the pharmacy of his father to feed the family.

After some heavy times Schwabe followed his interest in botanic and astronomic knowledge more intensively. In 1825 he won his first telescope in a lottery, began to document some observations and in the same year got a better telescope from the well-known physicist Joseph von Frauenhofer.

In 1829 he sold the house he inherited including the pharmacy and bought the corner house in Johannisstraße 18, which is still the www.SchwabeHaus.de today.

From the observatory under the roof he made intensive astronomical observations for over 43 years and documented them precisely. AMong other things he discovered the periodicity of the sun eruptions (every 11 years) and is well-known among astonomists world-wide with this.

He published his findings in the "Astronomical News" so Alexander von Humboldt visited his observatory. Through Humwith whom he had a boldt Schwabe became teacher of the dukes children, where he met his wife whom he marrie din 1841. Her brother brought him together with Professor Encke (direktor of the Berlin Observatory and well-known astronome) with whom he had an intensive dialogue over a long time.

3) Maimonides (Moshe Ben Maimon) (12. Jh.) RabbiDoc SpiritualDoc, PhilosophyDoc and AstrologyDoc

Moses Maimonides (March 30, 1135 Córdoba, Spain – December 13, 1204 Fostat, Egypt) was a Jewish rabbi, physician, and philosopher in Andalusia, Morocco and Egypt during the Middle Ages. He was one of the various medieval Jewish philosophers who also influenced the non-Jewish world. Although his copious works on Jewish law and ethics were initially met with opposition during his lifetime, he was posthumously acknowledged to be one of the foremost rabbinical arbiters and philosophers in Jewish history. Today, his works and his views are considered a cornerstone of Jewish thought and study.

Astrology (contains a lot of Astronomy...)

Maimonides answered an inquiry concerning astrology, addressed to him from Marseille. He responded that man should believe only what can be supported either by rational proof, by the evidence of the senses, or by trustworthy authority. He affirms that he had studied astrology, and that it does not deserve to be described as a science. The supposition that the fate of a man could be dependent upon the constellations is ridiculed by him; he argues that such a theory would rob life of purpose, and would make man a slave of destiny. (See also fatalism, predestination.)

4) Nikolaus Kopernikus is AstronomyDoc

.....In 1501 Copernicus returned to Frombork. As soon as he arrived, he obtained permission to complete his studies in Padua, where he studied medicine (with Guarico and Fracastoro), and at Ferrara, where in 1503 he received his doctorate in canon law. One of the topics Copernicus must have studied at that time was astrology, since it was then considered to be an important part of a medical education.^[5] However, unlike most other prominent renaissance astronomers, he appears to have never practiced it, or expressed any subsequent interest in it.^[6] It has also been surmised that it was in Padua that he encountered passages from Cicero and Plato about opinions of the ancients on the movement of the Earth, and formed the first intuition of his own future theory. In 1504 Copernicus began collecting observations and ideas pertinent to his theory. .......

5) Joachim Gardemann is AstronomyDoc and ArtDoc

Joachim Gardemann, born 1955, is a medical doctor (1983), consultant in paediatrics (1989) and public health medicine (1993) and holds a master´s degree in public health (1994).

Joachim Gardemann is a passionate hobby astronomer and a watercolour illustrator in his international Red Cross missions.

1) Wilhelm Olbers (1758-1840) AstronomicDoc and Delegate of the city of Bremen

2) Samuel Heinrich Schwabe is also AstronomyDoc

3) Maimonides (Moshe Ben Maimon) (12. Jh.) RabbiDoc SpiritualDoc, PhilosophyDoc and AstrologyDoc

Astrology (contains a lot of Astronomy...)

4) Nikolaus Kopernikus is AstronomyDoc

5) Joachim Gardemann is AstronomyDoc and ArtDoc