The legacy of Galileo shone like a brilliant star throughout the Fifth World Skeptics Congress, Oct. 8-10, 2004, and appropriately so, for it was held in Abano Terme, Italy, just outside of Padua (Padova), where Galileo taught from 1592 until 1610, wrote The Starry Messenger, and discovered the moons of Jupiter.
Other revolutionary figures in the history of science likewise had Padua connections. Among them were Nicolaus Copernicus, who studied there, and Andreas Vesalius, who ...
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