On Sunspots by Galileo Galilei, Christoph Scheiner

On Sunspots

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

418 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history science challenging informative medium-paced
Powered by AI (Beta)
Loading...

Description

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...

Read more

Community Reviews

Loading...

Content Warnings

Loading...