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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-Louise Parker (born August 2, 1964) [1] is an American actress. After making her Broadway debut as Rita in Craig Lucas' Prelude to a Kiss in 1990 (for which she received a Tony Award nomination), Parker came to prominence for film roles in Grand Canyon (1991), Fried Green Tomatoes (1991), The Client (1994), Bullets Over Broadway (1994), A Place for Annie (1994), Boys on the Side (1995 ...
Galileo was born in Pisa (then part of the Duchy of Florence) on 15 February 1564, [20] the first of six children of Vincenzo Galilei, a leading lutenist, composer, and music theorist, and Giulia Ammannati, the daughter of a prominent merchant, who had married two years earlier in 1562, when he was 42, and she was 24.
Longtime Companion is a 1989 American romantic drama film directed by Norman René and starring Bruce Davison, Campbell Scott, Patrick Cassidy, and Mary-Louise Parker.The first wide-release theatrical film to deal with the subject of AIDS, the film takes its title from the euphemism The New York Times used during the 1980s to describe the surviving same-sex partner of someone who had died of AIDS.
A Place for Annie is a 1994 American drama television film directed by John Gray, written by Cathleen Young and Lee Guthrie, and starring Sissy Spacek, Mary-Louise Parker and Joan Plowright. It aired on ABC on May 1, 1994, as part of the Hallmark Hall of Fame anthology series.
Troubled by monetary problems, Galileo placed them in the San Matteo convent shortly after Virginia's thirteenth birthday. [3] When she took the veil in 1616, Virginia chose her religious name, Maria Celeste, in honour of the Virgin Mary and her father's love of astronomy .
Mary Louise Streep (born 1949), better known as Meryl Streep, American actress; Mary Louise Tobin (1918–2022), better known as Louise Tobin, American singer; Mary Louise Weller (born 1946), American actress; Mary Louise White Aswell (1902–1984), writer under the pen name Patrick Quentin; Mary Louise Whitty, birth name of May Whitty (1865 ...
Galileo died believing that all of the advancements he had made in science were for naught. His books were banned, and his name was disgraced. All of this, for suggesting a theory that turned out to be true. In addition to depicting Galileo's trials before the Inquisition, the opera also allows us a glance into Galileo's more personal side.