On Sunspots by Galileo Galilei, Christoph Scheiner

On Sunspots

Galileo Galilei, Christoph Scheiner with Albert Van Helden (Translator)

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nonfiction history science challenging informative medium-paced
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Galileo's telescopic discoveries, and especially his observation of sunspots, caused great debate in an age when the heavens were thought to be perfect and unchanging. Christoph Scheiner, a Jesuit mathematician, argued that sunspots were planets o...

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