Well Drew, according to the Journal for the History of Astronomy from Harvard, the first man recognized as actively seeking stellar parallax was Robert Hooke (1635-1703.) Robert Moray is also credited with searching for parallax around the same time, but in these times it was dangerous to support the Copernican idea of a heliocentric model. There were possibly several "Copernicans" that sought for stellar parallax but did not come to the right conclusion or hid their findings. The cosmological controversy over the Earth's movement would continue for many years, until eventually evidence of stellar parallax forced the scientific community to recognize Copernicus' findings.
Well Drew, according to the Journal for the History of Astronomy from Harvard, the first man recognized as actively seeking stellar parallax was Robert Hooke (1635-1703.) Robert Moray is also credited with searching for parallax around the same time, but in these times it was dangerous to support the Copernican idea of a heliocentric model. There were possibly several "Copernicans" that sought for stellar parallax but did not come to the right conclusion or hid their findings. The cosmological controversy over the Earth's movement would continue for many years, until eventually evidence of stellar parallax forced the scientific community to recognize Copernicus' findings.
Do you know how Ptolemy came up with his geocentric model?
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ReplyDeleteWell Drew, according to the Journal for the History of Astronomy from Harvard, the first man recognized as actively seeking stellar parallax was Robert Hooke (1635-1703.) Robert Moray is also credited with searching for parallax around the same time, but in these times it was dangerous to support the Copernican idea of a heliocentric model. There were possibly several "Copernicans" that sought for stellar parallax but did not come to the right conclusion or hid their findings. The cosmological controversy over the Earth's movement would continue for many years, until eventually evidence of stellar parallax forced the scientific community to recognize Copernicus' findings.
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http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2005JHA....36..251S
Well Drew, according to the Journal for the History of Astronomy from Harvard, the first man recognized as actively seeking stellar parallax was Robert Hooke (1635-1703.) Robert Moray is also credited with searching for parallax around the same time, but in these times it was dangerous to support the Copernican idea of a heliocentric model. There were possibly several "Copernicans" that sought for stellar parallax but did not come to the right conclusion or hid their findings. The cosmological controversy over the Earth's movement would continue for many years, until eventually evidence of stellar parallax forced the scientific community to recognize Copernicus' findings.
DeleteThe link to the article is below:
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/2005JHA....36..251S
How did Copernicus know to use epicylces?
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