1651 ⟶ Riccioli's Lunar Nomenclature

Giovanni Riccioli renames the lunar maria.
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🔭 Galileo Galilei's Birth

Galileo Galilei born on February 15⟶
Galileo Galilei's Birth (1564)
AstronomyRenaissanceScientific RevolutionGalileo GalileiPhysicsHeliocentrismScientific MethodItalian RenaissanceTelescopeCosmology
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🔭 Galileo's Telescopic Astronomical Discoveries

Galileo Galilei: Sidereus Nuncius: telescopic observations.⟶
Galileo's Telescopic Astronomical Discoveries (1610)
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🔭 Niccolò Zucchi's Reflecting Telescope Experiments

Niccolò Zucchi describes experiments with a bronze parabolic mirror trying to make a reflecting telescope.⟶
Niccolò Zucchi's Reflecting Telescope Experiments (1616)
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🌡️ Barometer Invention

Barometer: invented by Evangelista Torricelli, or possibly up to three years earlier by Gasparo Berti.⟶
Barometer Invention (1643)
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🧫 Redi's Experiment Disproves Spontaneous Generation

Francesco Redi challenges the theory of spontaneous generation by demonstrating that maggots come from eggs of flies.⟶
Redi's Experiment Disproves Spontaneous Generation (1650)
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🔭 Riccioli's Lunar Nomenclature

Giovanni Riccioli renames the lunar maria.⟶
Riccioli's Lunar Nomenclature (1651)
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