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Calendar for this Unit
Lectures and Course Materials for the Galileo Humanities Unit
Contents
Texts General Resources Discoveries Astronomy Scientific Method Experiments Science and Religion
Texts
Galileo, "Two Kinds of Properties" from the Assayer
Galileo: Selections
from Dialogue Concerning Two New
Sciences
Galileo: Dialogue Concerning The Two Chief World
Systems
Newton, Mathematical Principles of Natural
Philosophy
Newton, Rules
for Reasoning in Philosophy (from Principia)
General Resources on Galileo
Timeline of The Scientific Revolution
Nova: Galileo’s Battle for the
Heavens
PBS series
The Galileo Project
Rice University : The premier
Galileo site
Art of Renaissance Science
Excellent Biography of Galileo and accounts of the experiments
Galileo and Einstein
Homepage
Excellent resources on Relativity
Galileo’s Daughter
Letters from G.’s daughter that form the basis of Dava Sobel’s bestselling book
The Galileo Room from
Florence
A Biography from the same
site
Resources
on The Starry Messenger and Galileo’s
Discoveries
Glossary
of terms for The Starry Messenger
By Prof. Anderson, from first lecture of this unit
The Starry Messenger Vocabulary List
Lecture on The Starry Messenger
Russell Macneil
Title
page of The Starry Messenger
includes brief description of discoveries
Phases
of Venus demonstration from Copernican standpoint
One of the few observational proofs Galileo had available to him
The-planet-jupiter.com
Great Pictures of Jupiter
Resources on the Copernican System and Cosmology
Explaining the
Astronomical Appearances
A comparison of Ptolemy and Copernicus on the motion of the stars and planets
History
of Physics Lectures from Thales to Einstein, with
excellent sections on Aristotle, Galileo, and Newton.
From the Galileo Einstein Homepage. An Excellent Resource.
The
Motion of the Planets
An overview with nice moving diagrams of the retrograde motion
Copernicus
and The Revolution in Astronomy
J.C. Evans from
Flash
Movie of inner planets in orbit
From Galileo-Einstein Site
The
Medieval Universe
From a Shakespeare site, excellent accounts of the cultural significance of the
astronomical theories
Some Main Points of Aristotle's Thought
Resources on Mechanism and Scientific Method
The View of Nature of the Scientific
Revolution
History of Science Study Guide
Excellent Resources on the Scientific Revolution
Galileo and the Rise of Mechanism
Fred Wilson, Rochester Institute of Technology
Lecture on Robert Boyle
One of the first proponents of atomic mechanism
Resources on Galileo’s
Experiments
Instructions for the Experiments for
Seminar 4
Pendulum,
Inclined Plane, and Projectile Motion
Inclined Plane applet
Knowmagine site; try different pitches and speeds
Pendulum Applet
by Sergey Kiselev and Tanya
Yanovsky-Kiselev
Characteristics
of Projectile Motion
Many wonderful animations. From The Physics Classroom.
Projectile Motion
Illustration of the vertical and horizontal components of parabolic motion
Projectile
Motion Java Applet
Try out different angles and velocities. From Galileo-Einstein project
Parabolic
Motion Applet
From the Virtual Physics laboratory; parabolic trajectories and the relation
between free fall and projectile motion.
Another
Projectile Motion Applet
from
Projectile
Motion and satellite orbits
Java applet that demonstrates how projectile escapes gravity and goes into
orbit
Virtual Laboratory Cannon
Use Galileo’s principles to aim and fire a cannon
Galileo’s
Experiments
Pendulum, Inclined Plane, and Free Fall from the PBS site
Galileo’s
Inclined Plane Experiment Galileo’s
Pendulum Experiments Projectile
Motion
The Inclined Plane
Experiments Projectile Motion
Experiments
Mathematical accounts from the Art of Renaissance Science Page
Galileo’s Notes on Motion
Images of the original Manuscripts
Resources on Science and Religion
A Lexicon for
Galileo’s Trial
The important people and terms involved. A Knowmagine
site
Faith and Religion
Pope
John Paul II, Message to Pontifical Academy of Sciences
Pope’s
Statement on Science and Religion
Catholic Encyclopedia Article
on Galileo
Good account of trial
The
closing of the Galileo affair
Abstract of conference paper on the Church’s 1992 reevaluation of Galileo
Science and Technology in the Catholic Catechism
Catholic Answers site. Not exactly objective.
Vatican Observatory Galileo Case Page
Bibliography and short quote
