Wednesday, July 29, 2015

Museum of Galileo

Today we went and saw the museum of Gallileo it had two floors of collections of Medici which was the first floor and then the second was the collections Lorraine. on the first floor in the first room they had all things astrological then mathematical instruments was the second room. In the third was telescopes and things pertaining to Gallileo. It had two of his original telescopes then in the same case under them was three of Gallileo's books. Including an original copy of the Dialog which was what got Gallileo persecuted. Then in a case farther down was Gallileo's actual finger. It was pretty neat. We then toured the second floor which had chemistry and electricity machines and tools. Then we got to play with remakes of some of the machines in the museum.

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  2. I also thought that the compound microscope that Galileo designed was really cool. It looked so different from those that are used today. It's amazing to think about the advancements that have been made, since the early microscopes could only see objects such as insects in greater detail, but nothing on the cellular level yet.

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  3. Don't forget about the giant structure that Galileo built in order to tell the time and also the moons phases and the day of which month. That was pretty cool

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  4. I was really fascinated by Galileo's telescopes. The engineering skills needed to build them is truly impressive.

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  5. I liked seeing the globe with various layers for each known planet and a place for the heavens at the outer layer of the universe as it was understood st the time. It was cool to hear about the different ways we have thought of Heaven, from a physical place at the edge of the universe to a spiritual destination. It also related to Galileo's observations and suggestion that the universe was infinite, which essentially denied the existence of Heaven at that time.

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