The Moon that Wasn’t The Saga of Venus’ Spurious Satellite /

• Main Author: Kragh, Helge (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel, 2008.
• Series: Science Networks. Historical Studies ; 37
• Subjects: Physics.; Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Cosmology.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.

This book details the history of one of astronomy’s many spurious objects, the satellite of Venus. First spotted in 1645, the non-existing moon was observed more than a dozen times until the late eighteenth century. Although few astronomers believed in the existence of the moon after about 1770, it...