Galileo, reliable observer : astronomical accuracy and the optical limits of the telescope

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  • Prophecy and politics in Spain : celestial novelties and the science of the stars, 1572-1630
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  • The comet of 1577 in Italy : astrological prognostications and cometary theory at the end of the sixteenth century
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  DOI: 10.1400/234624

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