Astronomy college course/Wikipedia Sidereus Nuncius/Quiz01/10

Contributions by mikeu ^talk

There's a typo in No. 10 "When the German astronomy Marius" --mikeu ^talk 20:58, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

Way to go mikeu! But everybody, there is still much to do: Can you write a short essay that makes this an interesting fact? Can you find a reference for this fact? (How do we know its actually true). Can you write a similar question with different wording so that the testbank becomes so large that very few students could read it in a semester?--Guy vandegrift (discuss • contribs) 21:10, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

Here's the reference. It is behind a paywall, but all the facts cited at wp are freely available in the abstract. --mikeu ^talk 23:23, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

Pasachoff, Jay M. (May 2015). "Simon Marius’s Mundus Iovialis: 400th Anniversary in Galileo’s Shadow". Journal for the History of Astronomy 46 (2): 218-234. doi:10.1177/0021828615585493. http://jha.sagepub.com/content/46/2/218. Retrieved 2016-01-02. 

Here's more detail. --mikeu ^talk 23:45, 2 January 2016 (UTC)

Van Helden, Albert. "Simon Marius". The Galileo Project. Rice University. Retrieved 2016-01-02.