Posted: Mar 26, 2010 8:27 pm
jeepyjay wrote:As regards dates, apart from Copernicus, they overlapped quite a bit.
Nicholas Copernicus 1473-1543
Tycho Brahe 1546-1601
Giordano Bruno 1548-1600
Thomas Harriot 1560-1621
Galileo Galilei 1564-1642
Johannes Kepler 1571-1630
Simon Marius 1573 -1624
Bruno and Harriot favoured an infinite universe.
Harriot was an astronomer interested in optics, so was unlikely to be fooled by Airy disks.
Damn! I messed up Tycho and Copernicus. Of course!
I misremembered of the wiki.Thanks!
