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--Apple-Mail-2-350069442 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Monday, December 14, 2009 =97 Galileo, the IYA, and Our Place in the =20 Universe by Roy Bishop. To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the =20 first use of a telescope in astronomy, the International Astronomical =20= Union and the United Nations have designated 2009 as the International =20= Year of Astronomy (IYA). The central figure in this story is Galileo =20 Galilei, renaissance physicist and the founder of modern experimental =20= physical science. Galileo initiated telescopic astronomy, a quest that =20=
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