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Category: 17th Century

French astronomers in India during the 17th – 19th centuries

23 Oct 2017

Jesuit Astronomers in Beijing 1601-1805

19 Oct 2017

Maximilian Hell and the Northernmost Transit of Venus Expedition of 1769

19 Oct 2017

Early Observations of Sunspots: Scheiner and Galileo

18 Oct 2017

The Parallel Worlds of Christoph Scheiner and Galileo Galilei

14 Oct 2017

On Sunspots – Galileo Galilei and Christoph Scheiner

2 Sep 2017

Johannes Kepler and the New Astronomy

28 Aug 2017

Anatomy of a fall: Giovanni Battista Riccioli and the story of g

28 Aug 2017

Opposition to Galileo was scientific, not just religious

17 Aug 2017

Johannes Kepler’s Harmony of the World

7 Aug 2017

How Frs. Riccioli and Dechales Argued that Science Shows the Earth to be at Rest – The Coriolis Effect

1 Aug 2017

Jesuit Science

1 Aug 2017

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