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arXiv:1108.4864physics.hist-ph

Vesto Slipher and the First Galaxy Redshifts

Laird A. Thompson

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Abstract

Priority in the discovery of the velocity-distance relationship may be shifting from Edwin Hubble to Georges Lemaitre, but any reassessment of credit must also consider the contributions of Vesto Slipher. Not only were his spiral galaxy redshifts a necessary component in all of the original velocity-distance plots, but it was the quest to explain these unprecedentedly large Doppler velocities that pointed the way to a new physical interpretation.

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4 pages, no figures, typos corrected
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physics.hist-phHistory and Philosophy of Physics astro-ph.COCosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

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    • > not shown any evidence of their existence What? Do you deny that highly similar spiral galaxes seen face-on are roughly similar in star-count? Do you deny the observation that there are highly similar spiral galaxies that occupy very different angular diameters on the sky? Do…

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