From: scerir (scerir@libero.it)
Date: Fri Jul 13 2001 - 14:30:20 MDT
> I'll try to remember: August 21 (it's a Tuesday this year) is Galileo Day.
> ©¿©¬
But on November 30 (1609) he saw, for the very first time,
the Moon, with his "cannone", his 20-power telescope,
("cannone", now "cannocchiale", actually means "gun")
http://www.mtsn.tn.it/astrofili/mat/luna/p1.html
from some backyard at Padua. And the Moon ...
was not the perfect globe that people thought,
at that time.
-s.
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