Green | January 31, 2009 | 11 comments

History Corrected by 400-year-old Moon Map

source: http://www.takefreetime.com/2009/01/history-corrected-by-400-year-old-moon.html

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Galileo Galilei is often credited with being the first person to look through a telescope and make drawings of the celestial objects he observed. While the Italian indeed was a pioneer in this realm, he was not the first...
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11 comments // History Corrected by 400-year-old Moon Map

  • creeldog
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      creeldog  

    • Hey this means that when Newton referred to standing on the shoulders of giants then he meant this guy too...... do you know how galileo invented the telescope? He was working on a pair of glasses and aligned the lens and accidently hit the focul point ,,,, BAM , the telescope was born.

    • 3 years ago
  • jahkee3
  • naty_forty
  • mik661
  • pjacobs51
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      pjacobs51  

    • Great find! It's hilarious when something from the distant past comes back to bite the present day know-it-alls right in the proverbial ass.

    • 3 years ago
  • heavenriots
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      heavenriots  

    • He drew pics of the moon before Galileo, but he didn't realize the importance of what he saw. Galileo made startling inferences and changed the way we thought of the structure of space. This guy is not really important.

    • 3 years ago
  • Scarabus
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      Scarabus  
    • heavenriots:

      Good point. Reminds me of Wallace and Darwin. And in another way of Fleming. How many people working in labs left Petri dishes out and found them nurturing stuff? Fleming is the guy who both saw the stuff and inferred what it meant.

    • 3 years ago
  • cerealforeal
  • Scarabus
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      Scarabus  

    • Lots of lessons here. One is that at the time scientists were much more free to pursue knowledge where it led if they lived in Protestant rather than Catholic nations. In the U.S. these days, the emblems for rejection of science are Protestant--places like the Creationism Museum.

      Incidentally, in an odd twist, the science museum in Florence includes a number of Gallileo mementos. It also includes one of Gallileo's dessicated fingers! He is a martyr; his "relic" is the finger; the pilgrimage church is the museum. (Don't know if you can pray to the finger of St. Gallileo and be graced with a miracle.)

    • 3 years ago
  • Jeffnfun631
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