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The
staff at Otter Creek-South Harrison Observatories conducts research in the
field of the history of astronomy.
Published work includes:
Letter to the Editor of Sky and Telescope Concerning Galileo's
Observations of Mizar, Sky &
Telescope (May 2006, July 2007) – click here
On the Accuracy of Galileo’s Observations, Baltic Astronomy Volume 16, Number 3, 2007 – click here
But Still, It Moves: Tides, Stellar Parallax, and Galileo’s
Commitment to the Copernican Theory, Physics
in Perspective Volume 10, Number 3 / September, 2008 – click here
Visible Stars as Apparent Observational Evidence in Favor of the
Copernican Principle in the Early 17th Century, Baltic Astronomy Volume 17, Number 3, 2008 – click here
Objects In Telescope Are Farther Than They Appear: How
diffraction tricked Galileo into mismeasuring the
distances to the stars, The Physics
Teacher Volume 47 (September 2009) – click
here
Regarding the Potential Impact of Double Star Observations on
Conceptions of the Universe of Stars in the Early 17th Century, Baltic Astronomy Volume 18, Number 1,
2009 – click here
The Universe of Stars as Revealed to
Galileo by Sensory Experience with the Telescope
(presented July 11, 2009 at ND IX, Ninth Biennial
History of Astronomy Workshop, Notre Dame, Indiana)
Lunar Eavesdropping in Louisville, Kentucky – click here.
Seeds of a Tychonic Revolution: Telescopic Observations of the Stars by Galileo
Galilei and Simon Marius, Physics in
Perspective Volume 12, Number 1 / March 2010 – click here.
17th Century Photometric Data in the Form of Johannes Hevelius's Telescopic Measurements of the Apparent
Diameters of Stars, Baltic Astronomy
Volume 18, Number 3, 2009 – click here.
Eavesdropping on Apollo 11, ARRL
News & Features, July 16, 2010 – click here.
Is Magnification Consistent? Why people from amateur astronomers
to science's worst enemy have some basic physics wrong, The Physics Teacher Volume 48 (October 2010) – click here.
The Making of the Fathers of Astronomy Exhibit, CAP Journal (October 2010) – click here.
The Telescope Against Copernicus: Star observations by Riccioli
supporting a geocentric universe, Journal
for the History of Astronomy Volume 41, Number 4, 2010 – click here.
Changes in the Cloud Belts of Jupiter, 1630-1664, as Reported in
the 1665 Astronomia Reformata
of Giovanni Battista Riccioli, Baltic Astronomy Volume 19, Number 4, 2010 – click here.
Giovanni Battista Riccioli’s
Review of the Case for and Against the Copernican Hypothesis
(presented July 9, 2011 at ND X, Tenth Biennial
History of Astronomy Workshop, Notre Dame, Indiana)
A True Demonstration: Bellarmine and the stars as evidence
against Earth’s motion in the early 17th century, Logos Volume 14, Number 3, 2011 – click
here
On the Telescopic Disks of Stars: A Review and Analysis of
Stellar Observations from the Early Seventeenth through the Middle Nineteenth
Centuries, Annals of Science Volume
68, Issue 3, 2011 – click
here
Teaching Galileo? Get to know Riccioli!
-- What a forgotten Italian astronomer can teach students about how science
works, The Physics Teacher Volume
50, Issue 1 (January 2012) – click
here
Science rather than God:
Giovanni Battista Riccioli’s review of the
case for and against the Copernican Hypothesis, Journal for the History of Astronomy Volume 43, Number 2 (May
2012) – click
here
The Work of the Best and Greatest Artist: A Forgotten Story of
Religion, Science, and Stars in the Copernican Revolution, Logos Volume 15, Number 4, 2012 – click here
Life as We Know It, Notre
Dame Magazine (Autumn 2012) – click
here
Stars as the Armies of God: Lansbergen's
Incorporation of Tycho Brahe's Star-Size Argument
into the Copernican Theory, Journal for
the History of Astronomy Volume 44, Number 2 (May 2013) – click here
The Case Against Copernicus, Scientific
American (January 2014) – click
here
Setting Aside All
Authority: Giovanni Battista Riccioli and the
Science against Copernicus in the Age of Galileo, University of Notre
Dame Press (April 2015) – click
here
The Telescope Speaks for Tycho: Simon
Marius, Giovanni Battista Riccioli, and the problem
of telescopic observations of stars in the early 17th century, in Astronomie in Franken: Von den Anfängen
bis zur
modernen Astrophysik: 125
Jahre Dr. Remeis-Sternwarte
Bamberg (1889), Gudrun Wolfschmidt, editor
(2015) – click
here
War Marius als
Astronom zu gut? Simon
Marius, das Teleskop und das Problem der Sterngrößen während der copernicanischen Revolution, Acta Historica Astronomiae
Volume 57 (2016) – click
here
Opposition to Galileo was scientific, not just religious, Aeon (September 2016) – click
here
Mathematical
Disquisitions: The Booklet of Theses Immortalized by Galileo, University of Notre
Dame Press (October 2017) – click
here
Last updated April 12, 2018
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