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From Myth to history and back.(Galileo In Rome: The Rise And Fall Of A Troublesome Genius)(Galileo's Mistake: A New Look At The Epic Confrontation Between Galileo And The Church)(Book Review)
; GALILEO IN ROME: THE RISE AND FALL OF A TROUBLESOME GENIUS. By WILLIAM R. SHEA AND MARIANO ARTIGAS. Oxford University Press. 211pp. $20. GALILEO'S MISTAKE: A NEW LOOK AT THE EPIC CONFRONTATION BETWEEN GALILEO AND THE CHURCH. By WADE ROWLAND. Arcade. 298pp. $26.95. For centuries the trial of Galileo...
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Historical Notes: Galileo insulted the Pope, not the Church
; GALILEO GALILEI, in the early 1600s, was a man driven both by personal...become, for future generations, the symbol of such conflict. Galileo was one of the first to scrutinise the heavens through...like Aristotle rather than bother with telescopes, and Galileo's way of doing science, examining nature to ...
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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love
; Galileo's Daughter. A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and...Benedetto Castelli, former student and correspondent of Galileo. Not surprisingly, the conversation soon turned to the...commanded the sun to stand still. Later, in a letter to Galileo, Castelli indicated that he had defended the new ...
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Galileo's Instruments of Credit: Telescopes, Images, Secrecy.(Book review)
; Mario Biagioli. Galileo's Instruments of Credit: Telescopes, Images, Secrecy...35. ISBN: 0-226-04561-7. More than a decade ago, in Galileo, Courtier, Mario Biagioli argued that Galileo's science depended upon his masterly exploitation of...
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Quick look at Galileo ICD.(Galileo Joint Undertaking released the Galileo Open Service Signal-In-Space Interface Control Document)
; The Galileo Joint Undertaking released the Galileo Open Service Signal-In-Space (SIS) Interface Control Document...fostering standardization for mass-market development of the Galileo Open Service (OS) for the benefit and the promotion of the...
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Fess up.(Galileo positioning system)
; Galileo proponents have finally acknowledged that public funding...shed the PPP illusion, it behooves us all to examine other Galileo myths, rehearsed again in a recent Financial Times article...perpetuates them; they do a disservice to the satnav community. Galileo will be more accurate than GPS. This ...
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galileo hosts training workshops in cairo
; Galileo, a leading global distribution system (GDS) and part of...an initiative to increase awareness and understanding of Galileo's global products. Hosted at the Egypt Air Corporate Headquarters in Cairo and facilitated by Don Smith, Galileo's regional product manager for Africa and the Middle East...
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Magnifico! Galileo and Jupiter.(The end of Galileo)(deliberate destruction of Galileo spacecraft)
; Galileo, a spacecraft that has been studying Jupiter, will self-destru...glorious decade of exploration WHEN, on September 21st, Galileo plunges into Jupiter's atmosphere and burns up, it will...contaminate Europa, one of Jupiter's moons. Europa, according to Galileo's instruments, has an environment that ...
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Galileo, here and now.(THE VIEW FROM HERE)(European Geostationary Navigation Overlay System)
; Galileo signals began effective broadcast in early January, after Giove-A, the first Galileo test satellite, was successfully launched from Baikonour on December 28th by a Soyuz rocket. Giove-A will secure the Galileo frequencies filed at the International Telecommunication...
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Retrying Galileo, 1633-1992
; Retrying Galileo, 1633-1992. By Maurice A. Finocchiaro...important addition to the literature on the Galileo affair. Finocchiaro is already weE known...English anthology of the documents of Galileo's trial and its background. Now he turns...
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