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 Introduction
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 Galileo's Villa
- Family
Quarters
- Text about Galileo's family can be found in this room.
- Laboratory
- Information about Galileo's inquiries in mechanics (physics) is available
in this room.
- Portrait Gallery
- Collections of browsable thumbnail images will be available in this room
when construction is finished. These images will be grouped topically;
cardinals and other church officials will be collected in one set of portraits,
astronomers in another.
- Receiving Parlor
- This room contains links to texts about Galileo's career, including
biographies of his patrons and accounts of the universities with which he was
associated.
- Chapel
- In addition to information about the Inquisition, this room includes
links to biographies of important church figures.
- Library
- The bibliography of the Galileo Project is found in the library.
Additionally, links about authors and books which played significant roles in Galileo's
career are also included in this room.
- Instrument Closet
- Text and images about the instruments used by Galileo to perform his
experiments and observations are located in this room.
- Observing Terrace
- Among the many links found in the Observatory are accounts of Galileo's
discoveries of Jupiter's moons, biographies of other contemporary astronomers
and accounts of cosmologies. In this room, there is a link to a collection of
Internet resources for modern astronomy and astrophysics; this collection
includes links to stellar images from space agencies and national
observatories.
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 Maps of Galileo's World
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 Timeline of Galileo's Life & Era
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Recent
Recognition
Education Web Guide
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Galileo Project is a hypertext source of information on the life and work
of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) and the science of his time. The project
is supported by the Office of the Vice President of Computing of Rice
University. The initial stages were made possible by a grant from the
Council on Library Resources to Fondren Library.
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