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198: 194:. He also took an interest in astronomy and botany and was forced to stop studies when his grandfather Häseler fell ill. After the death of Häseler in 1812, Schwabe was forced to take over the family pharmacy business and the family became prosperous. He spent his spare time in scientific pursuits but it was only after selling off the business that he began to attend to scientific activities fulltime. 737: 264:. The periodicity of sunspots is now fully recognized; and to Schwabe is thus due the credit of one of the most important discoveries in astronomy. Data from his notes and 8486 drawings has been digitized and analyzed. They have helped fill in gaps in the data collected by Rudolf Wolf from 1848. Schwabe also made observations of the 233:
in front of the Sun. For 17 years, from 1826 to 1843, on every clear day, Schwabe would scan the Sun and record its spots trying to detect any new planet among them. He kept notes but was not interested in publishing his results. His first note was a letter to Heinrich Schumacher which was published
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Schwabe was involved in founding a natural history society in Dessau where he served as its president. He contributed many mineral specimens to the collections of the society. In 1838 and 1839 he published his notes on botany in two volumes under the title
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Johann H. G. Häseler (1740-1812) and he too trained to be one in 1806 by joining the Dessau Mohrenapotheke owned by Häseler. After about three years he began to study at the University of Berlin training in pharmacy under
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Sheehan, William (2014). "Schwabe, Samuel Heinrich". In Hockey, Thomas; Trimble, Virginia; Williams, Thomas R.; Bracher, Katherine; Jarrell, Richard A.; Marché, Jordan D.; Palmeri, JoAnn; Green, Daniel W. E. (eds.).
447:"Die in der nachfolgenden Tabelle enthaltenen Zahlen lassen wohl keinen Zweifel übrig, daß wenigstens vom Jahre 1826 bis 1850 eine Periode der Sonnenflecken von ohngefähr 10 Jahren in der Art statt gefunden hat: … " 477:
From p. 85: "The numbers contained in the following table leave no doubt that, at least from the year 1826 to 1850, the occurrence of spots has been so far characterized by periods of ten years, … "
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and published his findings in a short article entitled "Solar Observations during 1843". In it he made the suggestion of a probable ten-year
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in Dessau and the honor influenced Schwabe to bequeath his notes to the Royal Astronomical Society which elected him as a member in 1868.
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observatory, was impressed so he began regular observations of sunspots. Schwabe's observations were afterwards utilized in 1850 by
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to map the Moon. From 1829 he was completely involved in scientific work. Schwabe was looking for a theoretical planet inside the
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from 30 October 1825. In 1826 he obtained a better telescope, a 4.8-in. Fraunhofer refractor that was used by
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Address delivered by the President of the RAS on presenting the Gold Medal of the Society to M. Schwabe
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of Jupiter and made notes of it in 1831 although these were only noticed and published in 1899.
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Schwabe obtained his first telescope through a lottery in 1825 and began his observations on
705:. Historischen Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. pp. 159–161. 640: 636: 581: 560:"Sunspot positions and sizes for 1825–1867 from the observations by Samuel Heinrich Schwabe" 532: 410: 349: 218: 811: 801: 89: 700: 685: 528: 406: 345: 238:(no. 495). Although he did not find any planet transiting the solar disc he noticed the 181:, Germany, where his father was a physician to the duke. His mother was the daughter of 41: 307: 265: 17: 832: 807: 748: 743: 335: 239: 230: 93: 66: 645: 610: 820: 817: 247: 773: 353: 182: 158: 761:. Vol. 24 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 387–388. 654: 595: 544: 414: 243: 142: 586: 536: 795: 461:. Vol. 4. New York, New York, USA: Harper & Brothers. p. 85. 455:
Humboldt, Alexander von; Otte, E.C., trans.; Paul, B.H., trans. (1868).
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
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Excerpts from Solar Observations During 1843 by Heinrich Schwabe
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Recipients of the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
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Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe
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Samuel Heinrich Schwabe

Dessau
Anhalt-Dessau
Holy Roman Empire
Duchy of Anhalt
German Empire
sunspots
Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society
astronomy
astronomer
sunspots
Dessau
Dessau
apothecary
Martin Heinrich Klaproth
Sigismund Friedrich Hermbstädt

sunspots
Wilhelm Lohrmann
orbit
Mercury
Vulcan
Sun
transit
regular variation in the number of sunspots
period
Rudolf Wolf
Bern
Alexander von Humboldt

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