Publications or
other major efforts in my field of Physics and Astronomy/Astrophysics (last
updated December 13, 2021):
Optical Coronal Emission Lines from Equilibrium and
Cooling Plasmas
The Astrophysical Journal (December
1, 1990)
SAO/NASA ADS link
Optical Coronal Emission Lines from Cooling Flows in
Elliptical Galaxies and Galaxy Clusters
The Astrophysical Journal (July 10,
1991)
SAO/NASA ADS link
Taking a Swat at Physics With a Ping-Pong Paddle
The Physics Teacher (February 1994)
SAO/NASA ADS link
Digitized Video Images as a Tool in the Physics Laboratory
The Physics Teacher (October 1995)
SAO/NASA ADS link
Classroom Image Processing
Sky & Telescope (August 2000)
Click here for
the support web page that accompanied this piece. You can still download the software. |
Sky &
Telescope
edited what I submitted to them so much that the piece published there was
essentially an abstract of my original article, “An
Image Processor for Students and Other Novices”. |
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The Physics of Speed and the Marketing of Horsepower
Jefferson Community College Southwest Speaker Series Public Lecture (December
13, 2003)
Click
here for PowerPoint presentation.
Best viewed with Internet Explorer or PowerPoint. |
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Aristotle
Was Right – Galileo Was Wrong (PowerPoint presentation. Best viewed with Internet Explorer or
PowerPoint.)
Workshops at
An Alternative Approach to 'Measuring Horsepower and
Torque Curves of a Car'
The
Physics Teacher (September
2005).
SAO/NASA ADS link
A Treasure Trove of Physics from a Common Source --
Automobile Acceleration Data
The
Physics Teacher (November
2005).
SAO/NASA ADS link
Letter to the Editor of Sky and
Telescope Concerning Galileo's Observations of Mizar
Sky & Telescope (May 2006, July
2007)
arxiv.org link
The Accuracy of Galileo’s
Observations and the Early Search for Stellar Parallax
Unpublished (2006)
On the Accuracy of
Galileo’s Observations
Baltic Astronomy Volume 16, Number 3
(2007); click here for author’s
version with larger figures, click
here for published version.
About Daylight
Kentucky Association for Environmental Education Newsletter (Spring 2008); click here
for KAEE web site).
But Still, It Moves: Tides, Stellar Parallax, and
Galileo’s Commitment to the Copernican Theory
Physics in Perspective Volume 10,
Number 3 (September, 2008); click here for
link to Birkhäuser Basel: Springer.
SAO/NASA ADS link
Visible Stars as
Apparent Observational Evidence in Favor of the Copernican Principle in the
Early 17th Century
Baltic Astronomy Volume 17, Number 3
(2008).
arxiv.org link
Regarding the
Potential Impact of Double Star Observations on Conceptions of the Universe of
Stars in the Early 17th Century (with Henry Sipes)
Baltic Astronomy Volume 18, Number 1
(2009).
arxiv.org link
The
Universe of Stars as Revealed to Galileo by Sensory Experience with the Telescope
(presented July 11 2009 at ND IX, Ninth Biennial
History of Astronomy Workshop, Notre Dame, Indiana)
This general
contents of this talk, absent illustrations, are available on arxiv.org.
OBJECTS IN TELESCOPE ARE FARTHER THAN
THEY APPEAR: How diffraction tricked
Galileo into mismeasuring the distances to the stars
The Physics Teacher (September 2009)
arxiv.org link
This paper was picked up by science news media
after being posted on ArXiv in August, 2008. Galileo's
Stars: Distance and Diffraction -- article by Chris Larson |
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Four centuries later, story of Galileo is still
unfolding, The Record (October
15, 2009).
Record online version
17th Century
Photometric Data in the Form of Johannes Hevelius's Telescopic Measurements of
the Apparent Diameters of Stars
Baltic Astronomy Volume 18, Number 3
(2009)
arxiv.org link
Seeds of a Tychonic Revolution: Telescopic Observations of the Stars by
Galileo Galilei and Simon Marius
Physics in Perspective Volume 12,
Number 1 (March 2010) (click here for
link to Birkhäuser Basel: Springer).
This paper was picked up by science news media in
March, 2010: Galileo
in a spin -- Guardian.co.uk, March 7, 2010 Galileis geheime Daten -- NZZ Online (Neue Zürcher
Zeitung), March 17, 2010 Myth,
heaven, and Galileo -- Guardian.co.uk, May 1, 2010 |
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Eavesdropping on Apollo 11, ARRL News & Features (July 16, 2010)
ARRL Link
Is
Magnification Consistent? Why people from amateur astronomers to science's
worst enemy have some basic physics wrong.
The Physics Teacher (October 2010)
arxiv.org link
The Making of the Fathers
of Astronomy Exhibit CAP Journal (October 2010)
The Telescope Against
Copernicus: Star observations by
Riccioli supporting a geocentric universe Journal for the History
of Astronomy Volume 41, Number 4 (2010)
On the
telescopic disks of stars – a review and analysis of stellar observations from
the early 17th through the middle 19th centuries (with T. P. Grayson) Annals of Science, iFirst 27 October
2010, DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2010.507472, Print Volume 68, Issue 3 (2011)
arxiv.org link
Changes in the Cloud
Belts of Jupiter, 1630-1664, as reported in the 1665 Astronomia Reformata of Giovanni Battista Riccioli
Baltic Astronomy Volume 19 (2010)
arxiv.org link
A
True Demonstration: Bellarmine and the
stars as evidence against Earth’s motion in the early 17th century Logos Volume 14, Number 3 (2011)
Giovanni
Battista Riccioli’s Review of the Case for and
Against the Copernican Hypothesis
(presented July 9 2011 at ND X, Tenth Biennial
History of Astronomy Workshop, Notre Dame, Indiana)
Coriolis
Effect — two centuries before Coriolis Physics
Today (August 2011).
PDF
link
This work was picked up by science news media in
early 2011 after I posted some preliminary material on Arxiv: Coriolis-like
effect found 184 years before Coriolis, MacGregor Campbell, New Scientist, 14 January 2011 |
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Varied
and Inhospitable American Scientist
Volume 99, Number 5, (September-October 2011)
Contra
Galileo: Riccioli’s “Coriolis-Force” Argument on the
Earth’s Diurnal Rotation
Physics in Perspective Volume 13,
Number 4 (December 2011), DOI: 10.1007/s00016-011-0058-5 (click here for
link to Birkhäuser Basel: Springer)
Teaching
Galileo? Get to know Riccioli! -- What a forgotten
Italian astronomer can teach students about how science works The
Physics Teacher Volume 50 (January 2012)
arxiv.org link
Tycho
was a Scientist… — guest
blog on “The Renaissance Mathematicus” (March 6,
2012)
Science
rather than God: Giovanni Battista Riccioli’s review of the case for and against the Copernican
Hypothesis Journal for the History of Astronomy Volume 43, Number 2 (May 2012)
Anatomy of a
fall: Giovanni Battista Riccioli and the story of g,
Physics Today (September 2012)
PDF link
The Work of the Best
and Greatest Artist: A Forgotten Story of Religion, Science, and Stars in the
Copernican Revolution Logos Volume 15, Number 4 (Fall 2012)
Life as We Know It (with M. J.
Crowe), Notre Dame Magazine (Autumn
2012)
Horrocks on the Transit of Venus (book review of Venus
Seen on the Sun: The First Observation of a Transit of Venus by Jeremiah Horrocks, translated by Wilbur Applebaum) Journal for the History of Astronomy
Volume 44, Number 1 (February 2013)
Stars
as the Armies of God: Lansbergen's Incorporation of
Tycho Brahe's Star-Size Argument into the Copernican Theory Journal for the History of Astronomy
Volume 44, Number 2 (May 2013)
Mass,
Speed, Direction: John Buridan's 14th-Century Concept
of Momentum The Physics Teacher
Volume 51 (October 2013)
arxiv.org link
The
Case Against Copernicus Scientific
American Volume 310, Number 1 (January 2014)
Translation of this paper into French: Pourquoi ils n'ont
pas cru Copernic Pour la Science
(February 2014)
Translation of this paper into Arabic: القضية المرفوعة ضد Majallat Al-Oloom (May-June 2014)
Translation of this paper into German: Kopernikus - Revolution mit Hindernissen Spektrum
der Wissenschaft (October 2014)
Translation of this paper into Spanish: El
caso contra Copérnico Investigación y Ciencia
(December 2014)
Translation of this paper into Hebrew: תיק קופרניקוס
Hebrew Scientific American Israel (April-May
2014)
Translation of this paper into Italian: Processo a Copernico Le Scienze
(March 2014)
Translation of this paper into Japanese:
地動説への反論 科学者が革新的アイデアに慎重な理由
Nikkei Science
(July 2014)
Translation of this paper into Polish: Kłopot
z Kopernikiem
Świat Nauki
(February 2014)
The Inquisition's Semicolon: Punctuation,
Translation, and Science in the 1616 Condemnation of the Copernican System
Unpublished (2014)
This paper was picked up by science news media
after being posted on ArXiv in February, 2014. |
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An
Astronomer Too Excellent – invited lecture given September 22, 2014 in
Nurnberg, Germany, as part of the Simon
Marius und die Astronomie in Franken conference
Little
Things Matter… — guest blog on “The Renaissance Mathematicus”
(October 21, 2014)
Setting
Aside All Authority: Giovanni Battista Riccioli and
the Science against Copernicus in the Age of Galileo – book published by University of Notre Dame
Press (April 15, 2015)
Amazon.com link
The
Telescope Speaks for Tycho: Simon Marius, Giovanni Battista Riccioli,
and the problem of telescopic observations of stars in the early 17th
century, in Astronomie in Franken: Von den Anfängen
bis zur modernen Astrophysik: 125 Jahre Dr. Remeis-Sternwarte
Bamberg (1889), Gudrun Wolfschmidt, editor (2015).
War
Marius als Astronom zu gut? Simon Marius, das Teleskop
und das Problem der Sterngrößen während
der copernicanischen Revolution Acta Historica Astronomiae Volume 57 (2016).
Opposition
to Galileo was scientific, not just religious Aeon (September 21, 2016).
This article was republished as Galileo
Fought Dirty With His Fellow Scientists The Atlantic (October 17, 2016). ואף על
פי כן,
טעה טעית
אלכסון
(March 28, 2017). L'opposizione a Galileo era scientifica,
non solo religiosa, The Vision (28 Settembre 2018) مخالفت با گالیله
علمی بود،
نه اینکه
صرفاً مذهبی باشد,
Tarjomaan
(چهارشنبه
۲۷ ارديبهشت
۱۳۹۶ ۱۴:۲۸) |
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Early
descriptions of Coriolis effect Physics
Today (July 2017).
PDF link
arxiv.org link
Mathematical
Disquisitions: The Booklet of Theses Immortalized by Galileo – book published by University of Notre Dame
Press (October 15, 2017)
Amazon.com link
The
Popular Creation Story of Astronomy is Wrong, Nautilus (May 17, 2018)
Click here for a PDF version
How to Make the
Earth Orbit the Sun in 1614, Journal
for the History of Astronomy Volume 50, Number 1 (February 2019)
arxiv.org link
As Big as a Universe: Johannes Kepler
on the Immensities of Stars and of Divine Power, Catholic Historical Review Volume 105, Number 1 (Winter 2019)
The Starry
Universe of Johannes Kepler, Journal
for the History of Astronomy Volume 50, Number 2 (May 2019)
arxiv.org link
An Astronomer Too
Excellent: Simon Marius, the Telescope, and the Problem of the Stars During the
Copernican Revolution in Simon Marius
and His Research, Springer (August 2019)
Omission and Invention: The
Problematic Nature of Galileo's Proposed Proofs for Earth's Motion, Logos Volume 22, Number 4 (Fall 2019)
An
Alternate History of Modern Science, Church
Life Journal (January 14, 2020)
Decoding the Stars (book
review) Catholic Historical Review
Volume 106, Number 3 (Summer 2020)
The
Galileo Myth, America (October
2020)
The
cosmos of a Big God: Brahe, Kepler, Bruno and the sizes of the stars in a
Copernican universe in Intersections
of Religion and Astronomy (Chris Corbally, Darry Dinell,
and Aaron Ricker, editors), book published by Routledge (2021).
Of Mites and Men
(and Stars): Kepler on the Question of Star Sizes in De stella nova in Kepler’s New Star (1604): Context and
Controversy (Patrick J. Boner, editor), book published by Brill (2021).
The
Starry Universe of Jacques Cassini: Century-old Echoes of Kepler, Journal for the History of Astronomy
Volume 52, Number 2 (May 2021)
Galileo Between Jesuits: The Fault
Is in the Stars, Catholic Historical
Review Volume 107, Number 2 (Spring 2021)
The Shogun’s
Silver Telescope (book review) Journal
of Astronomical History and Heritage Volume 24, Number 1 (March 2021)
Johannes Kepler, Giordano Bruno, and
Scientific Martyrdom, Skeptic
Volume 26, Number 2 (2021)
Galileo, a Model of Rational
Thinking? (essay review), Catholic
Historical Review Volume 107, Number 3 (Summer 2021)
The
truth about Galileo and the Catholic Church, Aleteia (September 24, 2021)
Everything Your Friends
Know About Galileo Is Wrong, National
Catholic Register (September 27, 2021)
The
Vatican Observatory has fought fire, COVID-19, and even moths to reach the
stars, Aleteia
(October 19, 2021)
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