From Galileo's landing on the moon, astronomy comes in the Vatican Museums

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Equatorial Telescope - Galileo Galilei

It's called 'Astrum 2009: Astronomy and tools. The Italian Heritage four hundred years after Galileo 'and will be held in the Vatican Museum from 16 October 2009 to January 16, 2010. This is the largest exhibition which will be 'possible to admire the astronomical telescopes, and the writings of the Tuscan scientist who abjure' in front of the Inquisition.

The exhibition opens with a section devoted to the instrumentation pre-Galilean even when all observations were done with the naked eye and were limited to survey and measure the motions of heavenly bodies, and finally reaches the present day, featuring instruments so complex and imposing that to be here represented only by photographs, films or components. Still deserves special attention Galileo's telescope, which is the first element of discontinuity 'in the progression of astronomical instrumentation.

The exhibition 'was promoted as part of the International Year of Astronomy launched by the United Nations, the four hundredth anniversary of the first telescopic observations of Galileo. The exhibition recounts the evolution of space exploration by man by Galileo landed the first astronauts on the moon, among other things are being exhibited for the first time the historical collections preserved in the museums of the Italian astronomical observatories, to From the Vatican Observatory. They are all between about 130 instruments, maps, models of the Ptolemaic or Copernican, manuscripts, paintings, photographs, codes.

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