SIDE PROGRAM

3° ITALIAN SPACE DAY 2023 - INITIATIVES

3° GIORNATA ITALIANA DELLE SPAZIO 2023 - INIZIATIVE

Galileo Galilei by Justus Sustermans (1636), Firenze, Galleria degli Uffizi - WikiCommons

GALILEO AND THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD OUTLINED IN HIS "ASSAYER", 400 years since publication

(GALILEO E IL METODO SCIENTIFICO DEL SUO TRATTATO IL "SAGGIATORE", 400 anni dalla sua pubblicazione)

 

IL SAGGIATORE at 400.  This year 2023 marks the four-hundredth anniversary of the publication of Galileo Galilei’s Il Saggiatore (The Assayer), a work on cometary theory that is best known for its controversial scientific claims and for being a turning point in its author’s relations with the Jesuits. Il Saggiatore was published as Galileo’s own contribution (with the aid of members of the Accademia dei Lincei) to the scientific dispute between Mario Guiducci, Galileo’s own pupil, and the Jesuit astronomer Orazio Grassi. In addition to its immediate intellectual and social context, the polemical exchange among Guiducci, Grassi, and Galileo develops themes and arguments that had characterized European cometary debates since the late sixteenth century, including, crucially, the significance of comets for the study of the universe, its order and matter. Famously, Il Saggiatore contains well-known considerations on the telescope, natural philosophy, and matter theory. Galileo’s volume was also the target of at least three anonymous denunciations because of its alleged support of Copernicanism and of atomism.

 

Presented by Federico DI GIACOMO

 

 

LET’S LIGHT UP THE CONSTELLATIONS

Gain skills and confidence in all aspects of the CONSTELLATIONS. In this laboratory, we will introduce the kids to the sky and constellations, and each kinds will build its one preferred constalaltion that they could possibly observe on clear nights with the new Moon, with the naked eye.

 

Presented by Federico DI GIACOMO