[From ScienceKids.co.nz] Galileo Galilei was an Italian scientist who helped open the eyes of the world to a new way of thinking about the workings of our solar system and astronomy in general. Galileo was a ground breaking astronomer, physicist, mathematician, philosopher and inventor. Among his inventions were telescopes, a compass and a thermometer. [image from: http://eminem-friant.blogspot.com/]
When we were young, Snickers were called Marathon, Starburst were called Opal Fruits and Pluto was a planet. It has now been downgraded to a dwarf planet since 2006 after a series of similar bodies were discovered, Eris and Ceres the biggest of them. It was discovered in 1930 by the astronomer Clyde W. Tombaugh who [...]
On 28th November 1520, after navigating through a strait at the southern end of South America, three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reach the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. Using Magellan as a theme to tie in with other explorers of [...]
A very good, in-depth article about the life of Galileo the famous scientist, inventor and astronomer.
From the site: The Galileo Project is a source of information on the life and work of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). Our aim is to provide hypertextual information about Galileo and the science of his time to viewers of all ages and levels of expertise. What you read and see here is a beginning — we will continue to add and update information as it becomes available. We solicit contributions from our colleagues in the history of science and comments on how we can improve the project from everyone, particularly suggestions on how to make this tool more useful in primary and secondary education.
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