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Galileo’s drawing my drawing my sketch of Jupiter’s rotation Galileo published his observations in Sidereus Nuncius in March 1610: “On the 7th day of January in the present year, 1610, in the first hour of the following night, when I was viewing the constellations of the heavons through a telescope, the planet Jupiter [...] Folio page 28 manuscript copy of Sidereus Nuncius sketch of 3-day old waxing moon 2-28-09 sketch of 5-day old waxing moon sketch of 14-day (full) moon 3/11/09 Galileo’s watercolor drawings were made with brown ink wash on watercolor paper. To me, these are the most beautiful of Galileo’s astronomical renderings. When I look at the [...] Galileo telescope replica and my TV Ranger Galileo's 1609 telescope There were separate housings at either end for the objective and the eyepiece When I started thinking about how to integrate International Year of Astronomy into my 2009 What’s Up podcasts I naturally focused on Galileo’s first observations through a telescope 400 years [...] |
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