Publications or
other major efforts in my field of Physics and Astronomy/Astrophysics (last
updated April 9, 2013):
Optical Coronal Emission Lines from Equilibrium and
Cooling Plasmas
The Astrophysical Journal (December
1, 1990)
SAO/NASA ADS link
Optical Coronal Emission Lines from Cooling Flows in
Elliptical Galaxies and Galaxy Clusters
The Astrophysical Journal (July 10,
1991)
SAO/NASA ADS link
Taking a Swat at Physics With a Ping-Pong Paddle
The Physics Teacher (February 1994)
SAO/NASA ADS link
Digitized Video Images as a Tool in the Physics Laboratory
The Physics Teacher (October 1995)
SAO/NASA ADS link
Classroom Image Processing
Sky & Telescope (August 2000)
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the support web page that accompanied this piece. You can still download the software. |
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Sky &
Telescope
edited what I submitted to them so much that the piece published there was
essentially an abstract of my original article, “An
Image Processor for Students and Other Novices”. |
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The Physics of Speed and the Marketing of Horsepower
Jefferson Community College Southwest Speaker Series Public Lecture (December
13, 2003)
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here for PowerPoint presentation.
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Aristotle
Was Right – Galileo Was Wrong (PowerPoint presentation. Best viewed with Internet Explorer or
PowerPoint.)
Workshops at
An Alternative Approach to 'Measuring Horsepower and
Torque Curves of a Car'
The
Physics Teacher (September
2005).
SAO/NASA ADS link
A Treasure Trove of Physics from a Common Source --
Automobile Acceleration Data
The Physics Teacher (November 2005).
SAO/NASA ADS link
Letter to the Editor of Sky and
Telescope Concerning Galileo's Observations of Mizar
Sky & Telescope (May 2006, July
2007)
arxiv.org link
The Accuracy of Galileo’s
Observations and the Early Search for Stellar Parallax
Unpublished (2006)
On the Accuracy of
Galileo’s Observations
Baltic Astronomy Volume 16, Number 3
(2007); click here for author’s
version with larger figures, click
here for published version.
About Daylight
Kentucky Association for Environmental Education Newsletter (Spring 2008); click here
for KAEE web site).
But Still, It Moves: Tides, Stellar Parallax, and
Galileo’s Commitment to the Copernican Theory
Physics in Perspective Volume 10,
Number 3 (September, 2008); click here for
link to Birkhäuser Basel: Springer.
SAO/NASA ADS link
Visible Stars as
Apparent Observational Evidence in Favor of the Copernican Principle in the
Early 17th Century
Baltic Astronomy Volume 17, Number 3
(2008).
arxiv.org link
Regarding the
Potential Impact of Double Star Observations on Conceptions of the Universe of
Stars in the Early 17th Century (with Henry Sipes)
Baltic Astronomy Volume 18, Number 1
(2009).
arxiv.org link
The
Universe of Stars as Revealed to Galileo by Sensory Experience with the
Telescope
(presented July 11 2009 at ND IX, Ninth Biennial
History of Astronomy Workshop, Notre Dame, Indiana)
This general
contents of this talk, absent illustrations, are available on arxiv.org.
OBJECTS IN TELESCOPE ARE FARTHER THAN THEY
APPEAR: How diffraction tricked Galileo
into mismeasuring the distances to the stars
The Physics Teacher (September 2009)
arxiv.org link
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This paper was picked up by science news media after
being posted on ArXiv in August, 2008. Galileo's
Stars: Distance and Diffraction -- article by Chris Larson |
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Four centuries later, story of Galileo is still
unfolding, The Record (October
15, 2009).
Record online version
17th Century
Photometric Data in the Form of Johannes Hevelius's
Telescopic Measurements of the Apparent Diameters of Stars
Baltic Astronomy Volume 18, Number 3
(2009)
arxiv.org link
Seeds of a Tychonic Revolution: Telescopic Observations of the Stars by
Galileo Galilei and Simon Marius
Physics in Perspective Volume 12,
Number 1 (March 2010) (click here for
link to Birkhäuser Basel: Springer).
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This paper was picked up by science news media in
March, 2010: Galileo
in a spin -- Guardian.co.uk, March 7, 2010 Galileis geheime Daten -- NZZ Online (Neue Zürcher Zeitung), March 17,
2010 Myth,
heaven, and Galileo -- Guardian.co.uk, May 1, 2010 |
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Eavesdropping on Apollo 11, ARRL News & Features (July 16, 2010)
ARRL Link
Is
Magnification Consistent? Why people from amateur astronomers to science's
worst enemy have some basic physics wrong.
The Physics Teacher (October 2010)
arxiv.org link
The Making of the Fathers
of Astronomy Exhibit CAP Journal (October 2010)
The Telescope Against
Copernicus: Star observations by
Riccioli supporting a geocentric universe Journal for the History
of Astronomy Volume 41, Number 4 (2010)
On the
telescopic disks of stars – a review and analysis of stellar observations from
the early 17th through the middle 19th centuries (with T. P. Grayson) Annals of Science, iFirst 27 October
2010, DOI: 10.1080/00033790.2010.507472, Print Volume 68, Issue 3 (2011)
arxiv.org link
Changes in the Cloud
Belts of Jupiter, 1630-1664, as reported in the 1665 Astronomia Reformata of Giovanni Battista Riccioli
Baltic Astronomy Volume 19 (2010)
arxiv.org link
A
True Demonstration: Bellarmine and the
stars as evidence against Earth’s motion in the early 17th century Logos Volume 14, Number 3 (2011)
Giovanni
Battista Riccioli’s Review of the Case for and
Against the Copernican Hypothesis
(presented July 9 2011 at ND X, Tenth Biennial
History of Astronomy Workshop, Notre Dame, Indiana)
Coriolis Effect — two centuries before Coriolis
Physics Today (August 2011).
PDF
link
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This work was picked up by science news media in early
2011 after I posted some preliminary material on Arxiv: Coriolis-like effect found 184 years before Coriolis, MacGregor
Campbell, New Scientist, 14 January
2011 |
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Varied
and Inhospitable American Scientist
Volume 99, Number 5, (September-October 2011)
Contra
Galileo: Riccioli’s “Coriolis-Force”
Argument on the Earth’s Diurnal Rotation
Physics in Perspective Volume 13,
Number 4 (December 2011), DOI: 10.1007/s00016-011-0058-5 (click here for
link to Birkhäuser Basel: Springer)
Teaching
Galileo? Get to know Riccioli! -- What a forgotten
Italian astronomer can teach students about how science works The
Physics Teacher (January 2012)
arxiv.org link
Tycho was a Scientist… — guest blog on “The Renaissance Mathematicus” (March 6, 2012)
Science
rather than God: Giovanni Battista Riccioli’s review of the case for and against the
Copernican Hypothesis Journal for the History of Astronomy Volume 43, Number 2 (May 2012)
Anatomy
of a fall: Giovanni Battista Riccioli and the story
of g, Physics Today (September
2012)
PDF
link
The Work of the
Best and Greatest Artist: A Forgotten Story of Religion, Science, and Stars in
the Copernican Revolution
Logos Volume 15, Number 4 (Fall 2012)
Life as We Know It (with M. J.
Crowe), Notre Dame Magazine (Autumn
2012)
Horrocks on the Transit of Venus (book review of Venus
Seen on the Sun: The First Observation of a Transit of Venus by Jeremiah Horrocks, translated by Wilbur Applebaum)
Journal for the History of Astronomy
Volume 44, Number 1 (February 2013)
Stars
as the Armies of God: Lansbergen's Incorporation of Tycho Brahe's Star-Size Argument into the Copernican Theory Journal for the History of Astronomy
Volume 44, Number 2 (May 2013)
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