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Next on NOVA: "Galileo's Battle for the Heavens"
http://www.pbs.org/nova/galileo/ Broadcast: July 6, 2004
In this two-hour special, NOVA vividly reconstructs an epic
Here's what you'll find on the companion Web site:
Timeline, Articles, and More
His Life
His Place in Science
His Telescope (and Sir Isaac's)
His Big Mistake
His Experiments:
Falling Objects
Projectiles
Inclined Planes
Pendulums
Resources
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historical confrontation: the bitter clash between a fiery
scientific genius, Galileo Galilei, and the church authorities who
tried to suppress his astonishing discoveries. The noted British
actor Simon Callow (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Shakespeare in
Love) plays Galileo in dramatic reenactments of key moments from his
life: his pioneering telescopic observations of the Moon and
planets, his revolutionary experiments with falling objects, and his
fateful trial before the Inquisition for heresy.
Explore an illustrated chronology of Galileo's life and work.
Author Dava Sobel details why Galileo is the father of
modern science.
Galileo's refractor and Newton's reflector remain the two
standard types of optical telescopes today.
How and why Galileo got it wrong about the tides.
Interactives
See how Galileo proved that light objects fall just as fast
as heavy ones.
Does an object falling straight down reach the ground faster
than one that also has lateral motion?
Play Galileo and calculate the rate of acceleration due to
gravity using an inclined plane.
Experiment with our online version of a pendulum.
Library Resource Kit
Teacher's Guide
Program Transcript
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