The Olympic Competition of Thomas Digges: The measurement of parallax and the development of observational methods in astronomy
A few months after the appearance of the supernova SN1572, Thomas Digges wrote a Latin book entitled Alae seu Scalae Mathematicae… in which he presented new methods for measuring small parallax angles like those expected for planets and other objects at similar distances. On the basis of our new tr...
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Museo Galileo
2024-10-01
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