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. 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