Sunday, January 08, 2006
This Day in Late Renaissance History
On this day in 1642 AD, Galileo Galilei dies. He popularized the viewing of the heavens with telescopes and changed naked eye observation of the stars and planets (and the silly connections people would draw between them and births on Earth), called astrology, into one of the great highways to truth, astronomy.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 8:13 AM 
