Why Do We Call Galileo Galilei by His First Name? Aug 20, 2009
Why Do We Call Galileo Galilei by His First Name ... Galileo GalileiFour hundred years ago this month, Galileo Galilei to the Venetian Senate ... Once he became famous, he often signed his name simply "Leonardo." Galileo referred to himself sometimes by first name only, sometimes as Galileo Galilei, and sometimes as (a nod to his alliance with a , which served, in part, as a kind of honorific). (Slate)
As important as Darwin Aug 17, 2009
On August 25th 1609 an Italian mathematician called Galileo Galilei demonstrated his newly constructed telescope to the merchants of Venice. Shortly afterwards he turned it on the skies. (The Economist)
Astronomy: Black-sky thinking Aug 14, 2009
The reason for picking 2009 to receive this honour is that it is exactly 400 years since Galileo Galilei turned his telescope on the heavens to study what the naked eye could not disclose, and also since Johannes Kepler revealed to the world that planetary orbits are ellipses, not circles. These two events can be seen, in retrospect, as the beginning of modern astronomy. (The Economist)
Saturn's rings to disappear Tuesday Aug 11, 2009
Galileo Galilei was the first to notice the rings and their then-mysterious transformation in the 17th century. Through one of the first telescopes, which he built himself, Galileo discovered Saturn's rings. (MSNBC -- Technology)
Saturn To Pull Celestial Houdini On August 11 Aug 10, 2009
By December 1612, Galileo Galilei had been studying Saturn and its "two large moons" (through his primitive telescope he mistook the ring system for moons on either side of the planet) for over two years. He had been noticing these "two moons" getting thinner and thinner. (Science Daily)
Climate change consensus Aug 9, 2009
He died as his work was coming off the press, and his work aroused little notice or scandal, languishing in relative obscurity until expanded by Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei. Armed with his recently invented telescope, Galileo published his findings in 1610. (Athens Banner-Herald)
Galileo and Venus Aug 7, 2009
Based on his observations using a telescope, Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) concluded that Venus orbited the sun, not the earth. In September or October 1610 Galileo began viewing Venus with his telescope in a systematic, scientific way. (Suite101.com)
* NSCs festival to highlight four centuries of astronomy Jul 28, 2009
The month-long festival, titled Four Hundred Years of Heaven Gazing, commemorates the beginning of astronomy four centuries ago in 1609 when Galileo Galilei pointed the first telescope to the sky, Deputy National Science Council Minister Chang Wen-Chuang (i) said. To celebrate four centuries of achievements, the festival, which opens on Aug. 8 and runs to Sept. 13 in Taipeis Liberty Square, will have 10 exhibitions, with themes ranging from Solar System Hall and Astronomical... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Writing Wrongs: Ancient words, modern events Jul 26, 2009
My thoughts immediately reverted to the great Galileo Galilei in Pisa, Italy. After rolling spheres down inclined planes and dropping musket balls and cannon balls from the Leaning Tower of Pisa, he discovered a fundamental law of physics: Acceleration of a falling body is independent of its mass. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
Scoping out the sky Jul 19, 2009
The scope can give a primitive image much like the one that Galileo Galilei saw hundreds of years ago or it can be quickly converted to a much more powerful scope. In that mode, it can be used at either 25 or 50 magnification to show Saturn s rings, for example. (Racine Journal Times, WI)
10 Telescopes That Changed Our View of the Universe Jul 15, 2009
Sometime in late June or July 1609, Italian astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei constructed his first spyglass a simple contraption of lenses at the ends of a tube. The previous year in The Hague, a Dutchman named Hans Lipperhey had filed for a patent on the device, but it was Galileo who would go on to make it famous. (Scientific American)
Mastery of science and theater 2009 Jun 26, 2009
Local Search Site Search. THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING. (Boston Globe)
Camaver Kunsthaus International opens at the Monastery of San Francesco Jun 16, 2009
The Revolution of the ideas - Along the recent history among the most important personages who have been living in Acquasparta, there was Galileo Galilei; a man who became important around the world ... This concept of revolution and the personage of Galileo Galilei will be the inspiration elements of the art show. (AbsoluteArts.com)
China's finest telescope to scan most celestial spectra Jun 5, 2009
Continuing mankind's dream of understanding the universe, triggered by the invention of astronomical telescope by Italy's Galileo Galilei, Chinese scientists are hoping to capitalize on the "costly big toy" to unravel dark matter, dark energy, as well as celestial formation and evolution. Before LAMOST, the American Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) had been the most powerful spectra-collecting optical telescope. (Xinhuanet, China)
PHOTO: "Hot Jupiter" Planet's Phases Seen -- A First May 28, 2009
May 27, 2009 For the first time, astronomers have mapped the phases of a planet outside our solar system (top) just as Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei drew the phases of (bottom) almost 400 years ago. The extrasolar planet, or exoplanet, COROT-1b orbits a star about 1,600 light-years from Earth. (National Geographic)
Neptune Easier to Spot Tomorrow, Thanks to Jupiter May 27, 2009
Oddly, a Neptune-Jupiter conjunction nearly 400 years ago almost allowed Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei to "pre-discover" Neptune, which was not confirmed as a planet until 1846, Hammergren said. In 1612, shortly after the invention of the telescope, Galileo famously had his instrument trained on Jupiter and its moons. (National Geographic)
Adler Planetarium Telescope Exhibit May 22, 2009
But the man who turned the telescope into a revolutionary engine of discovery was Galileo Galilei, an Italian mathematics professor at Padua University. He had read a description of the invention in May 1609 and soon was making his own, each new one slightly better than the last. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
New eyes to scan the skies May 22, 2009
Four hundred years ago, an Italian scientist named Galileo Galilei became the first person to see the craters on the moon. Galileo, who also observed four of Jupiter s moons and the rings of Saturn, was one of the first people to use a telescope to study the sky. (Science News for Kids)
String Theory: Equivalence Principle In Space Test May 15, 2009
ScienceDaily (May 14, 2009) Since Galileo Galilei and Newton, the assumption is valid that inert and heavy mass are equivalent. This is, however, questioned by new physical theories such as the String theory. (Science Daily)
The day the night sky changed forever May 4, 2009
Small wonder, then, that Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), an Italian professor of mathematics, was convicted of heresy by the Inquisition and sentenced to house arrest for life when he debunked all of the beliefs with the first telescopic views of the night sky as seen through a small and very crude 30 power telescope. During the months of 1609, Galileo revealed to the world that the Milky Way was millions of additional stars. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
400 years of the telescope Apr 8, 2009
Since Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) first turned his primitive spyglass on the heavens in 1609, it has moved the Earth from the center of the universe. A new PBS documentary, "400 Years of the Telescope: A Journey of Science, Technology and Thought," is poised to shed light on the telescope's contribution to our understanding of the cosmos. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Master of the universe Apr 5, 2009
In the early 1600s, astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was known as the Father of Astronomy, and became famous for questioning Christian biblical references which stated the sun and all the planets revolved around the Earth. Galileo supported a new theory, proposed by Nicolaus Copernicus, that the Earth and all the other planets revolved around the sun, and this got him into trouble with the Roman Catholic Church. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Galileo's telescope on historic visit to Philly Apr 4, 2009
The mottled brown cylinder on display at The Franklin Institute science museum is a 400-year-old telescope used by Galileo Galilei, whose observations of the heavens ultimately changed the face of not only astronomy but all of science. "Galileo, the Medici and the Age of Astronomy" opens Saturday and runs through Sept. 7. (Yahoo News)
Celebrate 400 Years of Astronomy With 'Visions of the Universe' Apr 4, 2009
It was 400 years ago, in 1609, that Galileo Galilei first turned a telescope toward the sky. The historical, philosophical and technological advancements the world has learned in the four centuries since then are the subject of a traveling exhibit, "Visions of the Universe: Four Centuries of Discovery," opening at the Washington Public Library next weekend. (Missourian Publishing, MO)
Public invited to a weekend of star-gazing Apr 3, 2009
The project, linking astronomers and observatories in 130 nations, comes from leaders of the International Astronomical Union, who chose it as a way to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the year when Galileo Galilei trained his primitive telescope on the planets and soon discovered the four major moons of Jupiter - Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto. Here's a partial list of events, provided by Fraknoi. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Science)
Giving them the finger? Mar 30, 2009
By CHUCK SHEPHERD The venerable 17th-century astronomer Galileo Galilei was honored at a gallery in Florence, Italy, in February to mark the 400th anniversary of his transformative work, which was widely discredited at the time (as contradicting the Bible) and which subjected him to vicious slanders. The exhibit includes Galileo s only preserved body part: one of his middle fingers. (Waterloo Courier, IO)
Watching the stars with the eye of Galileo Mar 28, 2009
Thus did Galileo Galilei, the astronomer and mathematician, come to America. By turning spyglasses like this to the sky 400 years ago and seeing mountains on the moon and satellites whirling around Jupiter in contravention of the Earth-centered cosmology of Aristotle and Ptolemy that had reigned for a thousand years, Galileo overturned the world. (International Herald Tribune -- Health)
Stargazing with Galileo Mar 24, 2009
But four centuries ago the telescope was a revolutionary new invention, and when the great scientist Galileo Galilei first pointed a telescope skyward in late 1609, he was astounded by what he saw night after night. All the unexpected sights revealed through his instrument transformed his life and the world at large. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
Saturn photographed with four moons Mar 18, 2009
Italian Galileo Galilei often referred to as the father of astronomy was the first to observe Saturn through a telescope in 1610. Dutch mathematician and astronomer Christian Huygens discovered Titan in 1655 and, 350 years later, the ESA probe named for him touched down on Titan (on Jan. 14, 2005), giving the world its first views of the surface of the mysterious, icy world. (MSNBC -- Technology)
JIM DODSON: The Old Man and the Tree Mar 17, 2009
" Once-Dominant Tree Howard knows his pine tree lore. Before the Europeans arrived and began hacking them down, the longleaf pine dominated from East Texas to Southeast Virginia, covering 90 million acres of coastal plains in at least six states. Moreover, for the first 5-12 years of life, a longleaf pine grows exceedingly slowly, resembling nothing so much as a tiny green fountain, then explodes robustly upwards and out for the next 150 years before reaching maturity. Some have been known to... (The Pilot Newspaper)
Trial Tweets Through The Ages Mar 14, 2009
Galileo Galilei tweets his. world is round. (CBS News)
Portraits of Artest Mar 14, 2009
Artest continues to make Pacman Jones look like Galileo Galilei. We know Artest is crazy. (CBS News)
LOOKING UP: Moons recession is short lived Mar 8, 2009
November 2009 will mark the 400th anniversary of the first observation Galileo Galilei made of the moon with his improved telescope. The Italian astronomer is regarded as the first person to turn a telescope to the night sky and bring his observations to public attention, marking a new epoch in scientific understanding. (Medfield Press, MA)
Goodwin stages a historic battle of wills Mar 1, 2009
Two Men of Florence'' pits faith against science in the persons of Pope Urban XIII (Edward Herrmann, above left with Molly Schreiber) and Galileo Galilei (Jay O. Sanders, right) ... One character's role has been deepened and others shortened or cut altogether, but the core of the story remains the same: Two 17th-century icons, astronomer Galileo Galilei and Pope Urban VIII, square off in a battle of religion versus reason. (Boston Globe)
Galileoscope enters production phase (89) Feb 24, 2009
The project was conceived for 2009, the 400th anniversary since Galileo Galilei used his primitive telescope to make significant observations in outer space. The 20-inch telescope that Arion and Smith designed will at first give a crude image much like the one Galileo first saw. (Racine Journal Times, WI)
Year of astronomy: More reasons to love stars! Feb 11, 2009
400 years ago, Galileo Galilei, a founding father of astronomy, aimed his home-made telescope at Jupiter, and saw four moons. Galileo did more than get a curb's-eye-view of some sparkling new real estate: He produced evidence for the revolutionary notion that the planets did not orbit the Earth, but rather the sun. (Why Files)
Visual Observing Feb 8, 2009
When Galileo Galilei first turned a telescope to the heavens four centuries ago, he discovered amazing things and you can follow in his footsteps. Just a couple hours spent learning to read a star map can open up the heavens for a lifetime of exploration. (SkyAndTelescope.com)
In Goa? Don't forget to gaze at the stars Feb 8, 2009
The year 2009 marks the completion of 400 years of the invention of the telescope by renowned scientist philosopher Galileo Galilei and 40 years of the historic moon landing. "Acknowledgment of astronomy's importance today can also be gauged by the billions of dollars invested by the US and India respectively, in the Atlantis and Chandrayaan missions," Nayak said. (Sify.com, India)
