After the discovery of the new star of 1572, we find similar phenomena enumerated in the contemporary literature. The earliest of such lists, like that of Riccioli, looked like the cometary historiae of the time. They listed various kinds of objects, which could be put into three classes: mythological, astronomical, and astrological. These compilations were usually gathered from a perusal of the literature, either astronomical or historical. They also provided shorter or longer description of these stars, sometimes together with their effects on earthly affairs. Changes began to appear in the 17th century, when a few astronomers started to observe the stars, and when Bullialdus detected the first periodic one among them. The latter allowed for the first time the prediction of a celestial phenomenon different from the movement of the planets. The second half of the century saw numerous claims of discovery, among them such a famous variable as Algol. The demythologization of the study of variable stars continued until the work of Edward Pigott, whose work laid the foundations of modern variable star astronomy.
...More
Article
Graney, Christopher M.;
(2013)
Stars as the Armies of God: Lansbergen's Incorporation of Tycho Brahe's Star-size Argument into the Coperncican Theory
(/isis/citation/CBB001200855/)
Chapter
Barreca, Francesco;
Boner, Patrick J.;
(2013)
A Perfect Similitude: Science and Politics in Kepler's Dedicatory Letter to De stella nova and the Astronomia nova
(/isis/citation/CBB001201008/)
Chapter
Westman, R. S.;
(2012)
Weighing Extraordinary Phaenomena: Giovanni Battista Riccioli on Novas and Comets
(/isis/citation/CBB001260655/)
Chapter
Tessicini, Dario;
(2012)
Il dibattito italiano sulla nuova stella del 1572 (Con il testo del Discorso intorno a la stella di Giuseppe Valdagno, MS Ambrosiana R 95 sup)
(/isis/citation/CBB001260566/)
Book
Granada, Miguel Ángel;
(2012)
Novas y cometas entre 1572 y 1618: revolución cosmológica y renovación política y religiosa
(/isis/citation/CBB001260564/)
Chapter
Tessicini, Dario;
(2010)
Cornelius Gemma and the New Star of 1572
(/isis/citation/CBB001032025/)
Article
Farkas, Gábor F.;
Zsoldos, Endre;
(2007)
The New Star of 1572 and Hungary
(/isis/citation/CBB000773365/)
Article
Granada, Miguel A.;
(2011)
After the Nova of 1604: Roeslin and Kepler's Discussion on the Significance of the Celestial Novelties (1607--1613)
(/isis/citation/CBB001023573/)
Book
Turatto, Massimo;
Benetti, Stefano;
Zampieri, Luca;
(2005)
1604--2004: Supernovae as Cosmological Lighthouses
(/isis/citation/CBB001232016/)
Article
Ivana Gambaro;
(2021)
Geo-heliocentric models and the Society of Jesus: from Clavius’s resistance to Dechales’s Mathesis Regia
(/isis/citation/CBB775928590/)
Article
Virginia Iommi Echeverría;
(2022)
The Southern Sky and the Renovation of the Ptolemaic Tradition in Sixteenth-Century Italian Astrologers
(/isis/citation/CBB434420109/)
Article
Granada, Miguel A.;
(2006)
Helisaeus Röslin on the Eve of the Appearance of the Nova of 1604: His Eschatological Expectations and His Intellectual Career as Recored in the “Ratio studiorum et operum meorum” (1603-1604)
(/isis/citation/CBB000741211/)
Article
Christopher M. Graney;
(2019)
The Starry Universe of Johannes Kepler
(/isis/citation/CBB993433533/)
Article
Granada, Miguel A.;
(2009)
Novelties in the Heavens between 1572 and 1604 and Kepler's Unified View of Nature
(/isis/citation/CBB000932203/)
Article
Stephenson, F. Richard;
Green, David A.;
(2005)
A Reappraisal of Some Proposed Historical Supernovae
(/isis/citation/CBB000773465/)
Article
Remmert, Volker R.;
(2007)
Visual Legitimisation of Astronomy in the Sixteenth and Seventeeth Centuries: Atlas, Hercules and Tycho's Nose
(/isis/citation/CBB000772345/)
Book
Stephenson, F. Richard;
Green, David A.;
(2002)
Historical Supernovae and their Remnants
(/isis/citation/CBB000201557/)
Chapter
Mosley, Adam;
(2013)
Past Portents Predict: Cometary Historiae and Catalogues in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
(/isis/citation/CBB001201000/)
Book
Boner, Patrick J.;
Tessicini, Dario;
(2013)
Celestial Novelties on the Eve of the Scientific Revolution, 1540--1630
(/isis/citation/CBB001200998/)
Article
Kuz'min, A. V.;
(2006)
The First Optical Observations of Stars: Galileo Galilei or Tycho Brahe?
(/isis/citation/CBB000930313/)
Be the first to comment!