The sighting of Jupiter's moons by Galileo Galilei resonates through science and history. Using a handmade telescope in January 1610, Galileo confirmed the Copernican theory that the planets moved ...
We don’t often see works by German playwright Bertolt Brecht on Sarasota stages (thinking back, it’s hard to recall the last time), so for theater lovers it’s quite an occasion to watch his Life of ...
Explore the Rick Perry Galileo flap and its implications on the misuse of history by climate skeptics and right-wing ideologies. I've done my latest DeSmogBlog piece on the Rick Perry Galileo flap. I ...
When he teaches “Ancient Astronomies” at the University of Colorado, John Stocke tells students about Pope Gregory XIII, whose Tower of the Winds helped prove the Julian calendar wrong and the ...
Jacob Zimmer says Tracy Wright has the chops and presence to play Galileo’s male lead. Not Jacob Zimmer, who co-directs (with Brendan Healy) a reading of Bertolt Brecht’s 1947 epic, The Life Of ...
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