The body of the impresa shall be globe-shaped with a number of small pieces of iron that surround it.  The soul of the impresa will comprise the motto: Vim Facit Amor (Love produces strength.)

Accordingly, the pieces of iron which are inevitably attracted to the lodestone will metaphorically represent Prince Cosimo’s subjects who are inevitably attracted (by love) to their ruler!

See “Famous People Wandering the Halls of AAS.”

“Certainly I had imagined encounters with Galileo often enough to almost feel his presence in my life, but I never heard the sound of his wonderful singing voice until his alter-ego Mark Thompson serenaded me. Music and humor, like observation and interpretation, helped Galileo make sense of the universe.”

Dava Sobel, world-renowned author of Galileo’s Daughter, Longitude, The Planets, and Letters to Father

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Where: Room 274 -St. Louis Convention Center

When:10:00 a.m. It is the first presentation (62.01)of the Oral Session– IYA: The Arts/Research Experiences.

If you plan to attend, please let Signore Galilei know in the reply section below and leave a comment if you wish.Â

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 Credit: SOHO/MDI

 Galileo’s Sunspot Drawing

 

We cannot help but wish that Aristotle finally has it right (though I doubt it)– when he says the world cannot be complete without something that’s free from creation and destruction, and it could not be that such a giant star should jump out all at once, like a stroke of lightning.