Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel was the first person to find the parallax of a fixed star.
Stellar Parallax
Earth's orbit around the Sun.
Not if they have the faintest clue what they're doing. Parallax is used to measure distance, not temperature.
Stellar parallax could not be observed until hundreds of years after Copernicus: the effect is very small. Rejection of the Copernican system was not irrational.
The first person to notice and report on stellar parallax was the Italian astronomer, Giuseppe Calandrelli (1749-1827). He reported the parallax for alpha-Lyrae. The first reliable measurement was made, for 61 Cygni, by the German astronomer Friedrich Bessel in 1838.
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Heliocentrism.
Stellar Parallax
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Stellar parallax
Earth's orbit around the Sun.
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Not if they have the faintest clue what they're doing. Parallax is used to measure distance, not temperature.
Stellar Parallax Astronomers estimate the distance of nearby objects in space by using a method called stellar parallax, or trigonometric parallax. Simply put, they measure a star's apparent movement against the background of more distant stars as Earth revolves around the sun.
Pressumably, they didn't have the high-precision devices required to measure those angles. You must consider that we are talking about extremely small angles - even the closest star has a parallax of less than one arc-second (1/3600 of a degree).
Stellar parallax could not be observed until hundreds of years after Copernicus: the effect is very small. Rejection of the Copernican system was not irrational.
they couldn't measure small angles