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--- On Mon, 11/1/10, Patricia Reiff <reiff at rice.edu> wrote:


From: Patricia Reiff <reiff at rice.edu>
Subject: [NARS] Galileo lecture TODAY!
To: nars at mailman.qth.net
Date: Monday, November 1, 2010, 7:27 AM


Please join us for the Rice Space Institute Colloquium TODAY.

DATE: Monday, November 1, 2010

TIME: 4:00pm  (refreshments following)

ROOM: 131 Anderson Biological Laboratories, Rice Campus

SPEAKER:  Albert  Van Helden
          Professor (Emeritus)
          Rice University

TITLE: "What Did Galileo Start?  400 Years Of News From The Stars"

ABSTRACT:  In 1608, when Galileo was a reasonably well-known professor  
of
the mathematical sciences at the University of Padua,  a spectacle- 
maker in
the Dutch city of Middelburg cam forward with a primitive spyglass.   
Galileo
saw in it a career opportunity, and began improving the device.  In the
autumn of 1609 he turned a much improved instrument to the heavens;  
and in
the spring of 1610 he published Sidereus Nuncius, The Sidereal  
Messenger.
His dramatic discoveries turned astronomy on its head, and  overnight
Galileo became a super star?a very controversial super star.  For the
followers of Copernicus, his discoveries  cinched the case; for the
theologians they presented a problem.    Recent research has thrown much
needed light on these early years of the telescope, with some  
interesting
surprises.

Albert Van Helden is Professor Emeritus of Rice University and the
University of Utrecht.  He is continuing his research on 17th-century
astronomy, and his new book On Sunspots (co-authored with Eileen  
Reeves) has
just been published by the University of Chicago Press.  His previous  
books
include The Invention of  the Telescope (1977), Measuring the Universe
(1985), and Sidereus Nuncius (1989). He lives in Leiden, the  
Netherlands.

Note on parking:
the closest lot is the "north annex lot" - requires a credit card.   
Enter entrance 20 (Kent St and Rice Blvd), then turn RIGHT (West) into  
the lot with the observatory. Some of the parking places may be  
blocked off because the dome will be moving on Tuesday.  Also there is  
free visitor parking on the west side of the stadium (enter on  
Greenbriar and take the shuttle bus). The Anderson lab is a small  
building between the geology and biology buildings, just east of the  
greenhouses.

Here is the link to the campus map:
http://www.rice.edu/maps/maps.html

Join the Rice Space Institute email list and get these notices sooner...
just send an email to me or to rsi-associates-subscribe at mailman.rice.edu

See you there!!

...Pat W5TAR


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