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View SchemaFirst Description of Discrete Stars Composing the Milk Way in Thomas Watson's Hekatompathia (1582)
| Authors | Eric Lewin Altschuler, William Jansen |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0305010 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0305010 |
Abstract
We note that the first unambiguous description of the Milk Way as being composed of a large number of discrete stars is in Sonnet 31 of Thomas Watson's (d 1592) Hekatompathia (1582), nearly 30 years before Galileo's description. We discuss implications of this early description.
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