papers
Publications (24)
physics.hist-ph2010
On the telescopic disks of stars - a review and analysis of stellar observations from the early 17th through the middle 19th centuries
Christopher M. Graney, Timothy P. Grayson
physics.hist-ph2006
Galileo's Double Star: The Experiment That "Proved" the Earth Did Not Move
Christopher M. Graney
physics.hist-ph2013
Mass, Speed, Direction: John Buridan's 14th century concept of momentum
Christopher M. Graney
physics.hist-ph2007
Letter to the Editor of Sky and Telescope Concerning Galileo's Observations of Mizar
Christopher M. Graney
physics.hist-ph2008
Objects In Telescope Are Farther Than They Appear: How diffraction tricked Galileo into mismeasuring the distances to the stars
Christopher M. Graney
physics.hist-ph2012
Beyond Galileo: A translation of Giovanni Battista Riccioli's experiments regarding falling bodies and "air drag", as reported in his 1651 Almagestum Novum
Christopher M. Graney
physics.ed-ph2011
Teaching Galileo? Get to know Riccioli! -- What a forgotten Italian astronomer can teach students about how science works
Christopher M. Graney
physics.hist-ph2010
Further Argument Against the Motion of the Earth, Based on Telescopic Observations of the Stars: An English Rendition of Chapter 30, Book 9, Section 4, Pages 460-463 of the Almagestum Novum Volume II of G. B. Riccioli
Christopher M. Graney
physics.hist-ph2014
The Inquisition's Semicolon: Punctuation, Translation, and Science in the 1616 Condemnation of the Copernican System
Christopher M. Graney
physics.hist-ph2013
Francesco Ingoli's essay to Galileo: Tycho Brahe and science in the Inquisition's condemnation of the Copernican theory
Christopher M. Graney
physics.hist-ph2012
Doubting, Testing, and Confirming Galileo: A translation of Giovanni Battista Riccioli's experiments regarding the motion of a falling body, as reported in his 1651 Almagestum Novum
Christopher M. Graney
physics.hist-ph2009
Regarding the Potential Impact of Double Star Observations on Conceptions of the Universe of Stars in the Early 17th Century
Christopher M. Graney, Henry Sipes
physics.hist-ph2011
126 Arguments Concerning the Motion of the Earth, as presented by Giovanni Battista Riccioli in his 1651 Almagestum Novum
Christopher M. Graney
physics.hist-ph2006
The Accuracy of Galileo's Observations and the Early Search for Stellar Parallax
Christopher M. Graney
physics.hist-ph2012
Regarding how Tycho Brahe noted the absurdity of the Copernican Theory regarding the Bigness of Stars, while the Copernicans appealed to God to answer that absurdity
Christopher M. Graney
physics.hist-ph2010
The Coriolis Effect Apparently Described in Giovanni Battista Riccioli's Arguments Against the Motion of the Earth: An English Rendition of Almagestum Novum Part II, Book 9, Section 4, Chapter 21, Pages 425, 426-7
Christopher M. Graney
physics.hist-ph2009
How Marius Was Right and Galileo Was Wrong Even Though Galileo Was Right and Marius Was Wrong
Christopher M. Graney
physics.hist-ph2010
17th Century Photometric Data in the Form of Johannes Hevelius's Telescopic Measurements of the Apparent Diameters of Stars
Christopher M. Graney
physics.hist-ph2009
Visible Stars as Apparent Observational Evidence in Favor of the Copernican Principle in the Early 17th Century
Christopher M. Graney
physics.pop-ph2009
Is Magnification Consistent? Why people from amateur astronomers to science's worst enemy have some basic physics wrong, and why
Christopher M. Graney
physics.hist-ph2008
On the Accuracy of Galileo's Observations
Christopher M. Graney
physics.hist-ph2010
Giovanni Battista Riccioli's Seventy-Seven Arguments Against the Motion of the Earth: An English Rendition of Almagestum Novum Part II, Book 9, Section 4, Chapter 34, Pages 472-7
Christopher M. Graney
physics.hist-ph2010
Riccioli Measures the Stars: Observations of the telescopic disks of stars as evidence against Copernicus and Galileo in the middle of the 17th century
Christopher M. Graney
physics.hist-ph2008
The Naked Eye Stars as Data Supporting Galileo's Copernican Views
Christopher M. Graney