Galileo: Images of the universe from antiquity to the telescope, March 13 - August 30, 2009

Area:	Museum
Start:	13 March 2009
End:	30 August 2009
Description:	On March 13th 2009 the exhibition "Galileo: Images of the universe from antiquity to the telescope" opened at Palazzo Strozzi in Florence. The exhibition has been supported and organized by the Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze and the Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi. Financial support was also provided by the Ministero per i Beni e le Attivita Culturali, Regione Toscana and the Comitato Nazionale per le Celebrazioni Galileiane. The exhibition is being held during the International Year of Astronomy. The exhibition, conceived and curated by Paolo Galluzzi, director of the Institute and Museum of the History of Science, focuses on the global and transversal dimensions of cosmology, highlights the complex relationship that cosmology has established through the ages with other aspects of human thought, as well as answers the questions that astronomy has provided to mankind's hopes, fears, and practical needs. Admiring objects of great beauty, many of which are one of a kind, such as archaeological finds from Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, and Roma as well as Medieval and Renaissance instruments, paintings and relics one can take a journey through space and time, exploring the science of the heavens and the birth of astronomy. The exhibition is divided into the following eight sections: "The dawn of astronomy: Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Biblical Cosmos", "The cosmos becomes a sphere", "The geometry of the cosmos", "The skies of Islam", "Evangelization of the cosmos", "The Renaissance of Astronomy", "Galileo: The cosmos through the telescope" and "From Galileo to Newton".
Link:	brunelleschi.imss.fi.it/galileopalazzostrozzi/index.html

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