ASTRONOMY. Galileo Galilei INVENTION
When presented with the authorities in 1609 emphasized its military use and not scientific. ROME
[EFE]. Astronomers from around the world yesterday commemorated the fourth anniversary of the recognition Official first telescope, an invention of the Italian scientist Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) that forever changed the course of astronomy.
On August 25, 1609 the Venetian Senate made him the invention of the Renaissance genius and approved a salary increase for Galileo as professor of Geometry, Mechanics and Astronomy at the University of Padua, where he served for several months until he decided to return with your telescope, to Florence.
authorities accepted the Republic of Venice and the Tuscan scientist's proposal to keep the exclusive use of a telescope that only four days earlier had been officially presented in the bell tower of the square San Marcos and, in principle, be used for defensive purposes.
"The place of the presentation was the bell tower of San Marcos, which still exists. From a height of 60 meters, you could see beyond the horizon of the sea. Up there he set up his telescope Galileo, "he told Efe Paolo Galluzzi, director of the Museum of History of Science in the Italian city of Florence.
"He showed the audience, who were numerous senators and prominent people, the benefits of this new instrument, especially its military and strategic value," he adds.
As a result of this presentation and the possibilities almost magical offered the telescope, the Venetian Senate agreed to increase the salary of Galileo from 320 to 1,000 florins, that is what tripled, and showed the value that was the invention of Pisa.
The Renaissance genius, who showed interest in almost all the arts existing at the time, thus became the father of an invention that has made and is still much for Astronomy was never the same since. Taken
On August 25, 1609 the Venetian Senate made him the invention of the Renaissance genius and approved a salary increase for Galileo as professor of Geometry, Mechanics and Astronomy at the University of Padua, where he served for several months until he decided to return with your telescope, to Florence.
authorities accepted the Republic of Venice and the Tuscan scientist's proposal to keep the exclusive use of a telescope that only four days earlier had been officially presented in the bell tower of the square San Marcos and, in principle, be used for defensive purposes.
"The place of the presentation was the bell tower of San Marcos, which still exists. From a height of 60 meters, you could see beyond the horizon of the sea. Up there he set up his telescope Galileo, "he told Efe Paolo Galluzzi, director of the Museum of History of Science in the Italian city of Florence.
"He showed the audience, who were numerous senators and prominent people, the benefits of this new instrument, especially its military and strategic value," he adds.
As a result of this presentation and the possibilities almost magical offered the telescope, the Venetian Senate agreed to increase the salary of Galileo from 320 to 1,000 florins, that is what tripled, and showed the value that was the invention of Pisa.
The Renaissance genius, who showed interest in almost all the arts existing at the time, thus became the father of an invention that has made and is still much for Astronomy was never the same since. Taken
Journal Trade, edition of August 26, 2009.
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