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Name: Sunspots
ID: m11970
Language: English (en)
Summary: A brief history of sunspots.
Subject: Humanities
Keywords: Benedetto Castelli, camera obscura, Christoph Scheiner, Copernican System, David Fabricius, Florence, Galileo, Johannes Kepler, Lyncean Academy, Marc Welser, Sunspots, telescope, Thomas Harriot, Tycho Brahe
Document Type: -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5//EN
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 1.0
Authors: Albert Van Helden (helden@rice.edu)
Copyright Holders: Albert Van Helden (helden@rice.edu)
Maintainers: Albert Van Helden (helden@rice.edu), Robert Ahlfinger (ahlfing@rice.edu), Chuck Bearden (cfbearden@gmail.com)
Latest version: 1.4 (history)
First publication date: May 18, 2004 10:27 am -0500
Last revision to module: Jul 5, 2007 12:52 pm -0500

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Version History

Version: 1.4 Jul 5, 2007 12:52 pm -0500 by Chuck Bearden
Changes: 
Image 'scheiner_rosa_ursina2-l-t.gif' is really a BMP, so I renamed it to 'scheiner_rosa_ursina2-l-t.bmp' and adjusted the CNXML accordingly.
Version: 1.3 Jul 7, 2004 11:37 am -0500 by Robert Ahlfinger
Changes: 
Link fix.
Version: 1.2 May 26, 2004 10:05 am -0500 by Robert Ahlfinger
Changes: 
cite, link and keyword fix
Version: 1.1 May 24, 2004 9:34 am -0500 by Robert Ahlfinger
Changes: 
Initial publication for the Galileo Project.

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