SETI bioastro: FW: Re: [HASTRO-L] Galileo exhumed?

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From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4_at_msn.com)
Date: Fri Mar 07 2008 - 05:04:36 PST

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    >From: "Brian R. Page" <brian_at_GLADLYLEARN.COM>
    >Reply-To: History of Astronomy Discussion Group <HASTRO-L_at_listserv.wvu.edu>
    >To: HASTRO-L_at_listserv.wvu.edu
    >Subject: Re: [HASTRO-L] Galileo exhumed?
    >Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 22:17:13 -0500
    >
    >As for the DNA, seems like they could just borrow a fragment from Galileo's
    >finger the the Museo di Storia del Scienza:
    >http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/finger.html. Of course, that wouldn't
    >help with his presumed daughter.
    >
    >Brian Page
    >
    >----- Original Message ----- From: "John M. McMahon" <mcmahon_at_LEMOYNE.EDU>
    >To: <HASTRO-L_at_listserv.wvu.edu>
    >Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 9:10 PM
    >Subject: [HASTRO-L] Galileo exhumed?
    >
    >
    >>BBC 3/5/08:
    >>
    >>"Italy row over Galileo's remains"
    >>
    >>"The Renaissance genius Galileo Galilei is once again at the centre of a
    >>row
    >>between Church and science more than 360 years after his death.
    >>
    >>Italian researchers want to exhume his body for DNA tests to find the
    >>cause
    >>of the blindness that afflicted him.
    >>
    >>They also want to confirm whether the body that shares his grave is that
    >>of
    >>Galileo's beloved daughter."
    >>
    >>More:
    >>
    >>http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7280148.stm
    >>
    >>JMM / LMC

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