1613

Events in 1613 2

• 1566 – 1613 Carlo Gesualdo Italian Renaissance composer Carlo Gesualdo was an Italian prince and composer notorious for his intensely chromatic madrigals and his personal life. His harmonic language was far ahead of his time.
• 1610 – 1613 Galileo — sunspots and solar rotation The Sun is not perfect — it rotates and has blemishes Between 1610 and 1613, Galileo systematically observed and published his studies of sunspots, demonstrating that they were features on the surface of the Sun rather than planets passing in front of it. His observations of their movement proved the Sun rotates. The discovery that the supposedly perfect heavenly bodies were imperfect was another blow to Aristotelian cosmology.