You Would Not Have Stood With Galileo: The surprising (and forgotten) strength of the science against Copernicus in Galileo's time

When Feb 24, 2016
from 07:30 PM to 08:30 PM
Where Natural Science 112
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Speaker: Christopher Graney

Abstract: Illustration from the 1651 New Almagest of Giovanni Battista Riccioli, showing geocentric and heliocentric models of the universe being weighed in light of telescopic discoveries.