when did he first start his career as an astronomer?
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what is h ii region? A region of interstellar atomic hydrogen that is ionized. where is it located? The Orion Nebula, the Eta Carinae Nebula, and the Berkeley 59 / Cepheus OB4 Complex. how far is it from earth? Sometimes several hundred light-years across. when was it first observed? 1610 and by whom? Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc who was he? French astronomer, antiquary and savant. did he like collecting things? Yes, he was an avid art collector. what kind of art did he prefer? He became the first admirers and supporters of Caravaggio in France.
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Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc [SEP] Intellectual and collector
From 1615 until 1622, Peiresc again visited Paris with du Vair. He then returned to Provence to serve as senator of the sovereign court. He became a patron of science and art, studied fossils, and supported the astronomer Pierre Gassendi from 1634 to 1637. Virginio Cesarini proposed him for membership of the Accademia dei Lincei in 1621, but it is not certain whether he joined. Peiresc's position as a great intellectual at the time of the scientific revolution has led to his being called a "Prince of the Republic of Letters". He was also a noted politician in his home region, and a tireless letter-writer (10,000 of his letters survive, and he was in constant correspondence with François de Malherbe, Hugo Grotius, the brothers Dupuy, Alphonse-Louis du Plessis de Richelieu, and with his great friend Rubens.