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GalileoBrief description The aim of this task group is to raise Galileo Galilei's public profile through intra-community communication, formal and informal education and public outreach.
Task group - Paolo Galluzzi, (Chair), Institute and Museum of the History of Science, Italy
- Thomas Hockey, Vice-Chair, AAS Historical Astronomy Division
- Peter Abrahams, Past President, Antique Telescope Society
- Marvin Bolt, Director, Webster Institute for the History of Astronomy
- Daniel Green, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
- Robert Hatch, Department of History, University of Florida
Documents Galileo: The Man and His Science A Resource Guide to Materials in English by Andrew Fraknoi (Foothill College & the Astronomical Society of the Pacific)
More resources: http://brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/portalegalileo/index.html Exhibitions about Galileo scheduled for 2009 Galileo’s telescope. The instrument that changed the world, now in Florence, then in Beijing, Philadelphia and Stockholm.
Galileo. Images of the Universe from Antiquity to the Telescope March 3th-August 30th 2009, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence;
The Telescope and the Paintbrush. New Science and New Art in the Age of Galileo, May 9th – July 20th 2009, Palazzo Giuli, Pisa.
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