2009 Summer Program
Exactly 400 years ago, a 35 year old Italian mathematician, Galileo Galilei, built a telescope after a Dutch design. With it, he saw in the face of the moon and the moons of Jupiter evidence that would change the way the world saw itself. Galileo was an experimenter who trusted his eyes and ears and hands. Build an experimenter’s tool box and fill it with Galileo’s tools and toys. Construct a telescope to match his, a model of the solar system as he saw it, his compass for aiming cannons (and a cannon to aim), a sunspot projector, his marble ramp, his thermometer, his pendulum motor. Learn the importance of play and persistence in making things work.
