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Science 8 February 1985:
Vol. 227. no. 4687, pp. 597 - 600
DOI: 10.1126/science.227.4687.597
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Galileo, Planetary Atmospheres, and Prograde Revolution

G. D. Parker 1

1 Associate professor of physics at Norwich University, Northfield, Vermont 05663.

Early in March 1610 Galileo was preoccupied with curious brightness variations of the newly discovered satellites of Jupiter. In formulating an incorrect explanation he advanced important generalizations about the existence of planetary atmospheres and counterclockwise circulation within the solar system.


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