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most citedOn the telescopic disks of stars - a review and analysis of stellar observations from the early 17th through the middle 19th centuries

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The Accuracy of Galileo's Observations and the Early Search for Stellar Parallax

Christopher M. Graney

The question of annual stellar parallax is usually viewed as having been a "win-win situation" for seventeenth-century astronomers who subscribed to the Copernican view of universe…

physics.hist-ph2006

Galileo's Double Star: The Experiment That "Proved" the Earth Did Not Move

Christopher M. Graney

Great opportunities arise for teaching physics, astronomy, and their histories when new discoveries are made that involve concepts accessible to students at every level. Such an op…