On the Telescopic Disks of Stars: A Review and Analysis of Stellar Observations from the Early Seventeenth through the Middle Nineteenth Centuries.
Since the dawn of telescopic astronomy astronomers have observed and measured the ‘spurious’ telescopic disks of stars, generally reporting that brighter stars have larger disks than fainter stars. Early observers such as Galileo Galilei interpreted these disks as being the physical bodies of stars;...
| Publicado en: | Annals of Science Vol. 68; no. 3; pp. 351 - 374 |
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