Galileo's Proof for the Earth's Motion from the Movement of Sunspots

DOI10.1086/353962zbMATH Open0583.01004OpenAlexW1989505344MaRDI QIDQ3707971FDOQ3707971

Authors: A. Mark Smith 

Publication date: 1985

Published in: Isis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1086/353962

Recommendations

• Galileo's Attempt to Prove That the Earth Moves
• Galileo, sunspots, and the motions of the Earth: redux.
• The apparent motion of the Sun revisited
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 51582
• And yet it moves: the observability of the rotation of the Earth
• Theory of the motion of the celestial bodies moving around the Sun in conic sections
• Mersenne's solution for Galileo's problem of the rotating earth

zbMATH Keywords

tidesEarth's motionmotion of sunspots

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) History of astronomy and astrophysics (85-03)

Cited In (4)

• And yet it moves: the observability of the rotation of the Earth
• Les marées et le mouvement de la Terre.
• Galileo, sunspots, and the motions of the Earth: redux.
• Science and Instruments: The telescope as a scientific instrument at the beginning of the seventeenth century

This page was built for publication: Galileo's Proof for the Earth's Motion from the Movement of Sunspots

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q3707971)