- Article (blog post)
- 1000 words
- Level: all audiences
A post by Chris Graney on The Catholic Astronomer website. “Why would a prominent Copernican, writing twenty years after the advent of the telescope, call the stars ‘the armies of God’? The answer to that is simple. He needed an explanation for why the stars were so giant…” The early Copernicans could not explain a lack of visible parallax in star positions except, ironically, by appealing to divine intervention.
