In the Footsteps of Galileo
 
 
  • Use a Galilean telescope to observe the night sky from the place in Padua where Galileo revealed Jupiter's moons to his colleagues.
  • View Galileo's compass, telescope, and microscope with Galileo expert Tom Settle at the Institute and Museum of the History of Science in Florence.
  • Study the Tuscan night sky at Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory.
  • Explore Pisa, Galileo's birthplace, and see Galileo's Lamp, said to have inspired his theories on pendular motion, suspended in the Duomo.
  • Tour a glass factory in Murano to learn how Galileo built his first telescope.


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