Charles Malapert (1581-1630) was a Belgian jesuit writer, astronomer and proponent of Aristotelian cosmology. He was considered one of the intellectual champions of the Catholic Church. He used observations of comets and stars of the southern sky to attack the hypotheses of Copernicus and Galileo. Events January 16 - English Parliament outlaws Roman Catholicism April 4 - Francis Drake completes a circumnavigation of the world and is knighted by Elizabeth I. July 26 - The Northern Netherlands proclaim their independence from Spain in the Oath of Abjuration. ... Events February 22 - Native American Quadequine introduces Popcorn to English colonists. ... The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu), commonly known as the Jesuits, is a Roman Catholic religious order. ... The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... An astronomer or astrophysicist is a scientist whose area of research is astronomy or astrophysics. ... Wiktionary has a definition of: Cosmology For the jazz band, see: Cosmology (band) Cosmology, from the Greek: κοσμολογία (κόσμος world + λογια discourse) is the study of the universe in its totality and by extension mans place in it. ... The Roman Catholic Church believes its founding was based on Jesus appointment of Saint Peter as the primary church leader, later Bishop of Rome. ... Comet Hale-Bopp, showing a white dust tail and blue gas tail (February 1997) A comet is a small astronomical object similar to an asteroid but composed largely of ice. ... The Pleiades star cluster A star is any massive gaseous body in outer space just like the Sun. ...

He is also known for observations of sunpots and of the lunar surface, and has a lunar crater named after him at lat 84.9s long 12.9e, diameter 69.0 km. This article is about impact craters, also known as meteor craters. ...

Apart from being an astronomer and a mathematician, Malapert also wrote Latin poems and theatre plays that became modest bestsellers during the 17th century.