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Definition of Medicean planets

Medicean planets
Medicean Med`i*ce"an, a. Of or relating to the Medici, a noted Italian family; as, the Medicean Venus. Medicean planets (Astron.), a name given by Galileo to the satellites of Jupiter.

Meaning of Medicean planets from wikipedia

- humans have started tracking the classical planets, and the first objects to be found to orbit any planet beyond Earth. They are planetary-m**** moons...
- Planetarum ex Causis Physicis Deductae [Theory [of the motion] of the Medicean planets [i.e., moons of Jupiter] deduced from physical causes] (Florence, (Italy):...
- Planetarum ex Causis Physicis Deductae [Theory [of the motion] of the Medicean planets [i.e., moons of Jupiter] deduced from physical causes] (Florence, (Italy):...
- planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a m**** more than two and a half times that of all the other planets in...
- 1589 and in Padua in 1592. In the wake of Galileo's discovery of the 'Medicean Planets', he gave the Cardinal a copy of his Sidereus Nuncius (Sidereal message)...
- in Lastra a Signa, where Galileo continued his observations on the 'Medicean planets' and developed his theories on sunspots. This led to the writing of...
- the naked eye in the Milky Way and in certain constellations, and of the Medicean Stars (later Galilean moons) that appeared to be circling Jupiter. The...
- motion (applied to Mars in Astronomia nova) to all the planets as well as the Moon and the Medicean satellites of Jupiter, it did not explain how elliptical...
- discovered the fourth on 13 January. Galileo named the group of four the Medicean stars, in honour of his ****ure patron, Cosimo II de' Medici, Grand Duke...
- moons he had discovered. He considered "Cosmian Stars" and settled on "Medicean Stars", in honor of Cosimo II de' Medici. The French astronomer Nicolas-Claude...