• DOI:10.1080/00033790.2010.507472
Corpus ID: 118007707

On the Telescopic Disks of Stars: A Review and Analysis of Stellar Observations from the Early Seventeenth through the Middle Nineteenth Centuries

@article{Graney2011OnTT,
  title={On the Telescopic Disks of Stars: A Review and Analysis of Stellar Observations from the Early Seventeenth through the Middle Nineteenth Centuries},
  author={Christopher M. Graney and T. Grayson},
  journal={Annals of Science},
  year={2011},
  volume={68},
  pages={351 - 373}
}

• Christopher M. Graney, T. Grayson
• Published 2011
• Physics
• Annals of Science

Since the dawn of telescopic astronomy astronomers have observed and measured the "spurious" telescopic disks of stars, generally reporting that brighter stars have larger disks than fainter stars. Early observers such as Galileo Galilei interpreted these disks as being the physical bodies of stars; later observers such as William Herschel understood them to be spurious; some, such as Christian Huygens, argued that stars show no disks at all. In the early 19th century George B. Airy produced a… Expand

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