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3.
DrakeStillman, “An unpublished fragment relating to the telescope and the Medicean stars”, Physis, iv (1962), 342–4; DrakeStillman, “Galileo's first telescopic observations”, Journal for the history of astronomy, vii (1976), 1976–68.
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GingerichOwenVan HeldenAlbert, “From Occhiale to printed page: The making of Galileo's Sidereus nuncius”, Journal for the history of astronomy, xxxiv (2003), 251–67. In this article we accidentally used the Julian calendar for days of the week, writing “Thursday evening, 11 January,” instead of “Sunday evening, 11 January”.
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We have used comparison positions from the JPL Horizons program. We thank Donald Yeomans and Robert Jacobson for specially extending the Jupiter satellites ephemerides to 1600 for our investigation.
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MeeusJean, “Galileo's first recorded observations of Jupiter”, Sky and telescope, September 1962, 137–9; Meeus's pioneering work showed only the longitudes of the satellites.
