Christopher M. Graney
American astronomer and historian of science known for research on early telescopic astronomy and the Copernican debate; a professor at Jefferson Community and Technical College and author of works including Setting Aside All Authority (2015) and Mathematical Disquisitions (2017).
Books
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1. Setting Aside All Authority
Giovanni Battista Riccioli and the Science against Copernicus in the Age of Galileo
Reexamines the seventeenth-century debate over Earth’s motion through Giovanni Battista Riccioli’s empirical critiques of heliocentrism, translating and analyzing his arguments based on telescopic observations, stellar sizes, and projectile physics. It shows why a geo-heliocentric model could seem more consistent with the data of the time, complicates the familiar conflict narrative, and illuminates how scientists weigh evidence and uncertainty before decisive discoveries emerge.
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