This is Marissa ->
For the observatory trip today I found the recreations of the telescopes to what Galileo Galilei may have used to be very fun and fascinating. To see firsthand what was available for technology and how difficult it was to use the available lenses (i.e. magnification) helped showcase how difficult it would be to find information that would counteract disagreeing ideas of the time. Also, I thought that the information about that along with the ideas of geocentrism there was also the belief that any orbiting body outside of the moon's orbit was "perfect". Therefore, the orbits and surfaces of any orbiting body further than the moon was perfectly circular and smooth, in corresponding order.
I was a little held up with those replicas with how small the bodies observed looked in them. It was hard because one of them was upside down and the other was really small.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed using the telescopes to looks at the moon. I thought it was funny they painted the microscope to make it more interesting.
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