Although Darwin has already gotten an enormous amount of attention this year for the bicentennial of his birth and sesquicentennial of the publication of /Origin of Species/, this is also the 400th anniversary of Galileo's first having turned his telescope on the moon. http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=astronomers-retrace-galileos-discov-2009-01-13
It turns out, however, that an Englishman may have beaten Galileo to the punch (or, so claims an English newspaper). http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2009/jan/14/thomas-harriot-galileo-moon-drawings Chris -- Christopher D. Green Department of Psychology York University Toronto, ON M3J 1P3 Canada 416-736-2100 ex. 66164 chri...@yorku.ca http://www.yorku.ca/christo/ ========================== --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly (bsouthe...@frostburg.edu)
