Happy Birthday Galileo

[iceman (Mike)]

A bit late, but yesterday (Feb 15th) was Galileo's birthday.. He was born in Pisa, Italy on Feb 15th 1564.

He was a pioneer in many astronomical areas, discovering the 4 brightest moons of Jupiter (we term them the Gallilean moons) and also made some early drawings of sunspots.. here's an example:

http://galileo.rice.edu/images/thing...gs/ss623-l.gif

There's a great website detailing almost every aspect of Galileo's life:
http://galileo.rice.edu/index.html

[h0ughy (David)]

missed that one. i am sure he won't mind though ;-)

I think there was a special doco on the ABC or SBS recently about him too