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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.hist-ph2019★ 6 cited

The Starry Universe of Johannes Kepler

Christopher M. Graney

Johannes Kepler described the Copernican universe as consisting of a central, small, brilliant sun with its planetary system, all surrounded by giant stars. These stars were far la…

physics.hist-ph2019★ 2 cited

How to make the Earth orbit the Sun in 1614

Christopher M. Graney

In 1614 Johann Georg Locher, a student of the Jesuit astronomer Christoph Scheiner, proposed a physical mechanism to explain how the Earth could orbit the sun. An orbit, Locher sai…