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Galileo’s Account of Kepler’s Supernova (SN 1604): A Copernican Assessment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2020

M. Cosci*
Affiliation:
Universita Ca’ Foscari Venezia email: [email protected]
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Abstract

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The name of Kepler is inseparably associated with the supernova of 1604 (SN 1604; V843 Ophiuchi), but there are reasons why Galileo Galilei might also claim to leave his name on that phenomenon, given the assiduousness of his observations.

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