Who First Discovered Dark Spots On The Sun Which We Now Call Sunspots?
2022-05-29
Historians generally agree that it was the English astronomer Thomas Harriot who first used a telescope to observe sunspots in late 1610. What do sunspots confirm about the Sun? In his letters to Wesler, published in 1613, he identified sunspots correctly as markings on the sun, confirming that the sunRead More →