Simon Kahn “Tim” Heninger Jr. (1922-2008), was a University Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill known for taking a life-long interest in the lives of his former colleagues and students, and for his altruism in society. He is the author of The Cosmographical Glass: Renaissance Diagrams of the Universe, The Handbook of Renaissance Meteorology, and Sidney and Spenser: The Poet as Maker.