Re: VMs: Research Note: f67v2

[Rene Zandbergen <r_zandbergen@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- elvogt@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> But my point was different: The images on f67 only
> remind us of a supernova, 
> because we know what's going on there. To a
> contemporary, the connection simply 
> would not have been there, because to him a SN was a
> bright new star, not an 
> indicator of a massive stellar explosion. (Even if
> he'd had a small telescope.)

Yes, that's of course right. What I meant was that
it was only thought to be a new 'star' from the
time of Tycho onward. If we date the VMs before
that, there were no such things as new stars...

Cheers, Rene


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