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the telescope: |
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Room
V
Room V of the Institute and Museum of the History of Science
in Florence holds many rare seventeenth century telescopes. The
show Medicean Skies has just been installed in the room. |
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Playing
with lenses
The game lets you reconstruct virtually four famous seventeenth
century telescopes.
To play you must have the plug-in of Macromedia Flash
5 [download
now] |
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On Galileo Galilei: |
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Room
IV
Room IV of the Institute and Museum of the History of Science
in Florence holds precious instruments and relics. |
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Galileo's
telescope [Italian only]
Explore Galileo's telescope through slide shows, interactive 3D
model and interactive animations. |
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Galileo//Thek@
[Italian only]
Enter the Galileo//Thek@, the galileian digital integrated archives.
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On
the history of astronomy: |
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A
Thousand Years of Astronomy [Italian only]
Access the complete chronology of astronomical studies in the seventeenth
century, with biographical links. |
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The
Cimento and Astronomy [Italian only]
Access the pages of the site Scienziati a Corte [Scientists
at Court] concerning the astronomical studies of the members of
the academy. |
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