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2 unusual facts about Galileo's ship


Galilean invariance

Galileo Galilei first described this principle in 1632 in his Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems using the example of a ship travelling at constant velocity, without rocking, on a smooth sea; any observer doing experiments below the deck would not be able to tell whether the ship was moving or stationary.

Principle of relativity

The special principle of relativity was first explicitly enunciated by Galileo Galilei in 1632 in his Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, using the metaphor of Galileo's ship.


1635: The Cannon Law

The book explores the reactions of the Roman Catholic hardliners to Pope Urban VIII's actions in tolerating the new freedom of religion taking root in Central Europe during the climax of The Galileo Affair.

Following the events of 1634: The Galileo Affair, Pope Urban VIII had been won over to the actions of the Americans after being saved from his attempted assassination and his subsequent pardon of Galileo Galilei.

8661 Ratzinger

The asteroid was named after then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger (who later became Pope Benedict XVI) for the role he played in supervising the opening of Vatican archives in 1998 to researchers investigating judicial errors against Galileo and other medieval scientists.

Alex Gaumond

In 2009 Alex Gaumond's career took to new levels when he was cast by Ben Elton, Brian May and Roger Taylor to play the lead role of Galileo Figaro in their co-written musical We Will Rock You.

Audi 100

The lawsuits surrounding the reported sudden acceleration episodes were subject of Peter W. Huber's 1993 book, Galileo's Revenge: Junk Science In The Courtroom.

B. V. Naik

He always gave the example of Galileo whose theory in astronomy was not accepted for a long time.

Barrie Stavis

His play, Lamp at Midnight, about Galileo's struggle with the Catholic Church to get his ideas accepted, was performed and televised on the Hallmark Hall of Fame in 1966.

Christina of Lorraine

Galileo wrote his Letter to Grand Duchess Christina, expounding on the relationship between science and revelation, in 1615.

Crewe Toll

A major aerospace facility is situated in the area, the Selex ES facility (formerly the avionics division of Ferranti, then GEC-Marconi, then BAE Systems, then SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems, then SELEX Galileo) has been in this location since the 1940s.

Dialogo de Cecco da Ronchitti da Bruzene in perpuosito de la stella Nova

Although the book itself claims to be by a certain Cecco da Ronchitti, it has been conjectured that it may have been written by Galileo under an assumed name.

Donald E. Williams

During the mission the crew successfully deployed the Galileo spacecraft, starting its journey to explore Jupiter, operated the Shuttle Solar Backscatter Ultraviolet Instrument (SSBUV) to map atmospheric ozone, and performed numerous secondary experiments involving radiation measurements, polymer morphology, lightning research, microgravity effects on plants, and a student experiment on ice crystal growth in space.

Florence Nightingale David

:::Wrote a book on History of probability, using problems thought of by famous mathematicians and scientists like Cardano and Galileo.

Galilei

Vincenzo Galilei (1520–1591), composer, lutenist, and music theorist; father of Galileo

Galileo CRS

Galileo is subject to the Capps II and its successor Secure Flight program for the selection of passengers with a risk profile.

Gian Vincenzo Pinelli

Pinelli's interest in the new science of optics was formative for Galileo Galilei, for whom Pinelli opened his library in the 1590s, where Galileo read the unpublished manuscripts, consisting of lecture notes and drafts of essays on optics, of Ettore Ausonio, a Venetian mathematician and physician, and of Giuseppe Moleto, professor of mathematics at Padua (Dupre).

Giove

GIOVE, Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element, a series of artificial satellites prototyping a satellite navigation system

Gnomon of Saint-Sulpice

The building of the Gnomon inside the Church of Saint-Sulpice occurred at a time when Rome was relaxing its stance against the theories of Galileo Galilei, as his works were being printed in Rome with the agreement of the Holy See, and in 1757 the Pope removed the works of Galileo from the Index Librorum Prohibitorum.

Guidobaldo del Monte

Guidobaldo became a staunch friend of Galileo and helped him again in 1592, when he had to apply to the chair of mathematics at the University of Padua, due to the hatred and machinations of Giovanni de' Medici, a son of Cosimo I de' Medici, against Galileo.

Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland

There he used a telescope to make a map of the moon several months before Galileo did the same.

Her Majesty's Australian Ship

This prefix is derived from HMS (Her/His Majesty's Ship), the prefix used by the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, and can be equally applied to warships and shore bases (as Australia follows the British tradition of referring to naval establishments as ships or stone frigates).

HMBS

Her Majesty's Ship, aka "Her Majesty's Burmese Ship" or Her majesty's Britannic Ship

House of Elzevir

Also, they are noted for their publication in 1638 of Galileo's last work, the Two New Sciences, at a time when the Inquisition forbade the latter's writings.

Ismael Serrano

After studying Physics in the Complutense University of Madrid, Ismael Serrano started his musical career in the early nineties in Madrid, singing folk based guitar music in a café circuit, at abashedly political venues like Libertad 8, Galileo and Nuevos Juglares.

Johannes Remus Quietanus

He sent copies of his Observationes et descriptiones duorum cometarum (1628) and Oeniponti (1629), intended for Galileo, to Federico Cesi and Giovanni Faber in Rome.

Marina Gamba

When Galileo left Padua for good in 1610 to take up his position at the Medici court in Florence, he took the two daughters with him but left their mother behind with 4 year-old Vincenzo, who joined his father in Florence a few years later.

Mauro Conconi

He painted canvases depicting San Vincenzo de Paoli, Parisina, Cristoforo Colombo (Columbus), Byron, a depiction of The Prisoner of Chillon from Byron's poem, Galileo Galilei, Camoens, The Surprised Bather, and the Ultimate Riches.

My Last Duchess

Science fiction author Eric Flint uses portions of "My Last Duchess" in his book 1634: The Galileo Affair (2004).

Pais Maravilla

I took the tour in Mexico, Spain and Japan to give concerts in forums such as the Chamber Galileo Galilei, and Suristán FNAC in Madrid and in Osaka, Tokyo and Chigasaki in Japan.

Pedro Luís Neves

He studied biology at the University of Lisbon and formed a jazz quartet at the Hot Club of Portugal, entered the universe of improvisation and composition techniques, simultaneously collaborating in the creation of two experimental theatre shows with Lisbon's Comuna Teatro de Pesquisa and Teatro Oficina from Brazil, in Brecht's play Galileo.

Philip III, Landgrave of Hesse-Butzbach

Philip III also corresponded with the astronomers Kepler and Galileo.

Quest: The History of Spaceflight

Representative articles have featured an unpublished chapter from the James Hansen authorized biography of Neil Armstrong regarding his involvement with the Space Shuttle Challenger accident investigation; the memoirs of Valentina Tereshkova, contributed directly by the first woman in space; Galileo and European interest in positioning and navigation satellites, military use of satellites in the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts, and the U.S. chimpanzee in space efforts.

Rare Book Room

It includes Library of Congress copies of Poor Richard's Almanack by Benjamin Franklin, and other rare editions: a Gutenberg Bible of 1455, William Harvey's book on the circulation of blood, Galileo ’s Sidereus Nuncius, the first printing of the United States Bill of Rights, and the Magna Carta.

Reginald Aldworth Daly

Daly summarized his ideas in his 1926 book, Our Mobile Earth, which included on the title page small print adopted from Galileo: E pur si muove.

Richard Robert Madden

Galileo and the Inquisition, London: Burns & Lambert; Dublin: J. Mullany, 1863.

Salviati

In Galileo's Dialogue, Salviati is the character who speaks for him.

Scipione Cobelluzzi

He was a member of the Inquisition and one of the cardinals who questioned Galileo after he came to Rome, and also of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith, created on 6 January 1622, to which he gave 100 scudi a year for ransoming prisoners of the Turks.

Sidereal

Sidereus Nuncius, or Sidereal Messenger, a scientific work by Galileo Galilei

Solar eclipses on Jupiter

Spacecraft can be used to observe the solar eclipses on Jupiter, these include Pioneer 10 and Pioneer 11 (1973 and 1974), Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 (1979), Galileo orbiter (1995-2003), Cassini-Huygens (2000) and New Horizons (2007) observed the transits of their moons and its shadows.

St Issey

On 28 December 1942 the British tug HMS St. Issey (Lt. J. H. W. Howe, RNR) was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine (U-617) off Benghazi, Libya.

Star Trek: Starfleet Command II: Empires at War

This differs from the Star Trek 'world' itself, which rarely featured fighters (except in later episodes of DS9); the closest equivalent were the ubiquitous shuttles such as the Galileo 7 prominently featured in the original Star Trek series episode "The Galileo Seven and the light spacecraft flown by Star Fleet cadets in the ST:TNG episode "The First Duty.

Stefano Benni

In 1989 with Umberto Angelucci, Benni directed the film Musica per vecchi animali, adapted from his book Comici spaventati guerrieri with the actors Dario Fo, Paolo Rossi, and Viola Simoncioni, and just two years before that he was also the screenwriter of another film, Topo Galileo by Francesco Laudadio, starring his friend Beppe Grillo and with music by Fabrizio De André and Mauro Pagani.

Subject–object problem

A rather different aspect of the subjective-objective divide is the role of social inhibition, a factor at work from the times of the Roman Inquisition and Galileo to the Scopes trial and Kennewick Man.

Teo Gebert

Gebert made his stage debut in Reg Livermore's musical Big Sister in 1990, and has appeared at the Sydney Theatre Company in Trackers of Oxyrhinicus, Antony and Cleopatra, Lost in Yonkers, Galileo and Blackrock.

Venetian Arsenal

As a result of his interactions with the Arsenal, Galileo published a book later in his life addressing a new field of modern science, that concerned with the strength and resistance of materials.

Villa Il Gioiello

He made frequent visits to the students of Villa Castelli, and the young Vincenzo Viviani and Evangelista Torricelli assisted Galileo until his death.


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