author
August Tischner
b. 1819
Known today mostly through library records and a handful of surviving books, this little-known 19th-century writer argued passionately about astronomy and the motion of the sun. His works have the feel of a determined outsider taking on accepted scientific ideas of his time.
2 Audiobooks
The Sun changes its position in space therefore it cannot be regarded as being "in a condition of rest"
by August Tischner
Le Système Solaire se mouvant
by August Tischner
About the author
August Tischner is an obscure 19th-century author identified in library and digitized-book catalogs as having been born in 1819. Reliable personal details are scarce, but surviving records consistently connect him with astronomy and with books published in the 1880s.
His known works include Sta, sol, ne moveare (1882), The fixed idea of astronomical theory (1885), and The Sun changes its position in space, which was later digitized by Project Gutenberg. Across these titles, he appears as a forceful critic of established astronomical thinking, especially ideas tied to the Copernican and Newtonian systems.
Because so little biographical information is readily confirmed, he is best remembered through his books rather than through a well-documented life story. That makes him an intriguing figure for modern listeners: a largely forgotten author whose surviving work still preserves the voice of an independent and argumentative mind.