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Letters on Sunspots (Istoria e Dimostrazioni intorno alle Macchie Solari) was a pamphlet written by Galileo Galilei in 1612 and published in Rome by the Accademia dei Lincei in 1613. In it, Galileo outlined his recent observation of dark spots on the face of the Sun. [ 1 ] His claims were significant in undermining the traditional Aristotelian ...
Mary Lou Goertzen (1929–2020), American artist, peace activist and Mennonite; Mary Lou Makepeace (born 1940), American politician, Mayor of Colorado Springs; Mary Lou McDonald (born 1969), Irish politician, leader of Sinn Féin; Mary Lou Rath (fl. 1978–present), American politician, Republican member of New York State Senate
Galileo Galilei almost certainly began telescopic sunspot observations around the same time as Harriot, given he made his first telescope in 1609 on hearing of the Dutch patent of the device, and that he had managed previously to make naked-eye observations of sunspots. He is also reported to have shown sunspots to astronomers in Rome, but we ...
Smith also wrote and helped Lord record a song called "I Figured You Out" in 1997. Lord signed with the Sony subsidiary Work in 1997 and released the album Got No Shadow in 1998. [ 3 ] On December 31, 1998, Lord and Kevin Patey, from the band Raging Teens, had a daughter, whom they named Annabelle Lord-Patey.
The Discourse on Comets (Italian: Discorso delle Comete) was a pamphlet published in 1619 with Mario Guiducci as the named author, though in reality it was mostly the work of Galileo Galilei. In it Galileo conjectured that comets were not physical bodies but atmospheric effects like the aurora borealis. [1]: 62
Lou Johnson (February 11, 1941 – May 1, 2019) [1] was an American soul singer and pianist who was active as a recording artist in the 1960s and early 1970s. Life and career [ edit ]
Attributed to Galileo Galilei " And yet it moves " or " Although it does move " ( Italian : E pur si muove or Eppur si muove [epˈpur si ˈmwɔːve] ) is a phrase attributed to the Italian mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) in 1633 after being forced to recant his claims that the Earth moves around the Sun ...
Johann Goldsmid, [1] better known by his Latinized name Johann(es) Fabricius (8 January 1587 – 19 March 1616), [2] eldest son of David Fabricius (1564–1617), was a Frisian/German astronomer and a modern era discoverer of sunspots in 1611, preceded by Thomas Harriot and followed by Galileo Galilei.