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2015
On the occasion of the 450th anniversary of Galileo’s birth, three events have been organised by "Il Colle di Galileo”: the lecture by Prof. P. Molaro “On a possible youthful portrait of Galileo” and the play “Galileo vs. Shakespeare” by M. Lazzerini, both at Villa Il Gioiello in Arcetri; and a full day presentation dedicated to the pupils of secondary
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On the occasion of the 450th anniversary of Galileo’s birth, three events have been organised by "Il Colle di Galileo”: the lecture by Prof. P. Molaro “On a possible youthful portrait of Galileo” and the play “Galileo vs. Shakespeare” by M. Lazzerini, both at Villa Il Gioiello in Arcetri; and a full day presentation dedicated to the pupils of secondary
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2018
This chapter describes the history of Galileo’s discovery of the law of fall and the parabolic trajectory, beginning with early work on the physics of motion by predecessors like the Oxford Scholars, Tartaglia and the polymath Simon Stevin who dropped lead weights from the leaning tower of Delft three years before Galileo dropped lead weights from the ...
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This chapter describes the history of Galileo’s discovery of the law of fall and the parabolic trajectory, beginning with early work on the physics of motion by predecessors like the Oxford Scholars, Tartaglia and the polymath Simon Stevin who dropped lead weights from the leaning tower of Delft three years before Galileo dropped lead weights from the ...
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AN ASTROLABE BELONGING TO GALILEO?
Nuncius, 1997RIASSUNTO Un comune astrolabio tedesco datato 1537 (IC 262) presenta due curiose caratteristiche, che lo metterebbero in relazione con Galileo Galilei. Si ipotizza che l'astrolabio sia stato modificato a Firenze, e che Galileo ne sia entrato in possesso intorno agli anni '80 del XVI secolo.
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Why Was There No Javanese Galileo?
2013The Dutch being scientific and colonial, this chapter poses two questions about the scientific interests of their colonial subjects in Java. First, did the Javanese have an evidence-based science of the natural world in 1808? Second, if not—and it seems they did not—then why not?
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1978
This play contains ‘the most complete presentation of Brecht’s intellectual world’.1 The first version was written in Denmark in November 1938 and revised early in 1939. It reached the stage in Zurich on 9 September 1943. A second version in English was worked out in collaboration with Charles Laughton in California from December 1944 to December 1945,
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This play contains ‘the most complete presentation of Brecht’s intellectual world’.1 The first version was written in Denmark in November 1938 and revised early in 1939. It reached the stage in Zurich on 9 September 1943. A second version in English was worked out in collaboration with Charles Laughton in California from December 1944 to December 1945,
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2012
Milton’s angels and the enigmatic figures Chaos and Night are characters within the epic narrative. They are the supporting cast for the dramatic confrontation between Adam and Eve and Satan. Galileo is not. Yet he is the only contemporary to be named in Paradise Lost.
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Milton’s angels and the enigmatic figures Chaos and Night are characters within the epic narrative. They are the supporting cast for the dramatic confrontation between Adam and Eve and Satan. Galileo is not. Yet he is the only contemporary to be named in Paradise Lost.
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