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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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physics.ed-ph2011★ 2 cited

Teaching Galileo? Get to know Riccioli! -- What a forgotten Italian astronomer can teach students about how science works

Christopher M. Graney

What can physics students learn about science from those scientists who got the answers wrong? Students encounter little science history, and what they have encountered typically p…

physics.hist-ph2011★ 3 cited

126 Arguments Concerning the Motion of the Earth, as presented by Giovanni Battista Riccioli in his 1651 Almagestum Novum

Christopher M. Graney

In 1651 the Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Riccioli published within his Almagestum Novum, a massive 1500 page treatise on astronomy, a discussion of 126 arguments for and ag…