Galileo Returns to the Vatican

Source: Universe Today
Image: Galileo, oil painting by Justus Sustermans, 1637; in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence

Four centuries after Galileo Galilei was ordered by the Catholic Church to come to Rome and stand trial on suspicion of heresy, a statue of the Italian astronomer will be erected at the Vatican. 2009 is the International Year of Astronomy, which celebrates 400 years since Galileo first used a telescope to study the heavens, and the Vatican plans to join in commemorating the anniversary. Galileo was condemned to house arrest by the Catholic Church in 1633 because his belief that the sun was at the center of the solar system, and not the Earth, contradicted the bible.
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Working on the webpages and blog-29-03-2008

Students of Escola Secundária de Loulé were working in the classroom creating contents for the blog and webpages. Though most of the work on these sections is extracurricular this was a classroom activity. The topic gravitation was a pretext for studying the tides and planetary motion.

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This blog is a joint venture between Escola Secundária de Loulé (Portugal) and ITI e Liceo Tecnologico "G. Cardano (Italy).
It intends to be a place where people involved in the eTwinning project "Sharing Stars" post topics related to the project.