For those of you who have visted Google this fine day of August 25th, 2009 you will see that the search site is paying special homage to Galileo Galilei and his first demonstration of his first telescope.
400 years ago this day, Galileo demonstated his telescope and thus in many ways changed the history of astronomy and his own life drastically. Modern astronomy is greatly endebted to Galileo and his discoveries and so the moment of telescope presentation siginifies an important one (you can read about it in this Gaurdian article).
Boy, between marking 200 years since Charles Darwin’s birth, 150 years since the first publishing of On the Origin of Species, and now 400 years since Galileo’s telescope demonstration it seems like 2009 has been a big year for “things that happened in science a nice century or more ago.”
Still, all great stuff.
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