John Michell, the Pleiades, and Odds of 496,000 to 1

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Jul 2007

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Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage (ISSN 1440-2807), Vol. 10, No. 2, p. 93 - 99 (2007).

Statistics

John Michell, Stars, Statistics, Clusters, Binaries, Gravity

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John Michell, M.A., B.D., F.R.S. (1724-1793), was the first scientist to apply statistics to the spatial distribution of the stars on the celestial sphere. He was the first to realise that certain groupings, like the Pleiades cluster in Taurus, were non-random, thus indicating that these stars were a physical group in space, held together by gravity. This paper presents a step-by-step exposition of Michell's rather convoluted mathematical approach, and discusses the implication of his findings when it came to the acceptance of Newtonian gravitation, the search for stellar parallax and the investigation of binary stars.

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