[NatureNS] Blomidon Naturalists Meeting: Mon, Dec. 14: Galileo, the IYA, and Our Place in the Universe

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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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