Galileo’s Discovery of a New Sky and of a New Physics on the Earth

Семинары

Общелабораторный семинар

Дата и время: вторник, 26 сентября 2017 г., в 15:00

Место: Конференц-зал (2-й этаж), Лаборатория теоретической физики им. Н.Н. Боголюбова

Тема семинара: «Galileo’s Discovery of a New Sky and of a New Physics on the Earth»

Докладчик: William R. Shea (Galileo Professor of History of Science, University of Padova (ret.))

Аннотация:

The speaker will present the astronomical discoveries of Galileo made with the telescope of his own conception described in his epoch making Sidereus Nuncius (Venice, 1610), a book which marked the beginning of the new Astronomy. A new Physics is exposed In Galileo’s last book, Two New Sciences, published in 1638, based on research done starting from his youth in Pisa and Padova. Galileo discovered a New Earth on the sky (the Moon has mountains and valleys, like our Earth) and new laws of Physics, allowing later the Newtonian Synthesis.