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The Earth’s atmosphere has always acted as a screen between the observer and the rest of the Universe. The pre-Copernicans regarded it as the seat of the volatile elements because of its mobility; it separated the sublunar world from that of the stars. Between the time of Galileo and the conquest of space, it limited observable photons to the narrow visible window, radio frequencies being added only latterly1.
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Léna, P. (1988). The Earth’s Atmosphere. In: Observational Astrophysics. Astronomy and Astrophysics Library. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-02554-3_2
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