The Naked Eye Stars as Data Supporting Galileo's Copernican Views

2008/11/18 by Christopher M. Graney, Graney, Christopher M.
Arts and Humanities · Medicine · Physics and Astronomy · #Astronomy #Copernican principle #FOS: Physical sciences #Galileo (satellite navigation) #Geography #Historical Astronomy and Related Studies #History and Developments in Astronomy #History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph) #History of Science and Medicine #Medicine #Naked eye #Observational study #Optics #Physics #Remote sensing #Stars #physics.hist-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0811.3007

10 pages, 5 figures, under 1700 words

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Abstract

The aggregate appearance of the naked-eye stars would appear to Galileo to be direct observational support for his ideas about the stars, and indirect observational support for the Copernican theory over the rival Tychonic theory. Brief historical background is also included.

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