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Galileo may have discovered Neptune
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus...0907071040.htm
Galileo discovered planet Neptune?
Press Trust Of India
Melbourne, July 07, 2009
Astronomer Galileo Galilei may have discovered Neptune in 1613 - 234 years before the planet was officially found, according to a new theory.
Prof David Jamieson of the University of Melbourne has claimed in his theory that the notebooks of Galileo from some 400 years ago contain concrete evidence that he had discovered a new planet in 1613, which is now known as Neptune.
And, according to him, if correct, the discovery would probably be the first new planet, identified by humanity since deep antiquity.
Galileo was observing the moons of Jupiter in 1612 and 1613 and recorded his observations in his notebooks. Over many nights he had also recorded the position of a nearby star that does not appear in any modern star catalogue.
"It has been known for several decades this unknown star was actually planet Neptune. Computer simulations show the precision of his observations revealing that Neptune would have looked just like a faint star almost exactly where Galileo observed it.
"Galileo may indeed have formed the hypothesis that he had seen a new planet which had moved right across the field of view during his observations of Jupiter over the month of January 1613. If this is correct Galileo observed Neptune 234 years before its official discovery," Prof Jamieson said.
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more details here:
Galileo may have discovered Neptune
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus...0907071040.htm
Galileo must have been an alien from an advanced civilization. There doesn't seem to be anything that he didn't discover first.
This is going to have a huge impact politically.
There was Galileo of the past, who was wise and intelligent. There is also a Galileo in the spurs forum who is neither.
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Galileo is a pioneer. Spurstalk should be happy, he has been a big Spurs fan since 1605.
That's creepy...Galileo is a pioneer. Spurstalk should be happy, he has been a big Spurs fan since 1605.
If the real Galileo was still alive, that would be nice.
Do you really think you have any comparison to him? You don't really think you are him, do you?
that galileo discovered neptune..............
............this galileo discovered uranus...................
i couldn't resist
Cool story; Galileo's arguably one of the 5 most important scientists to ever live.
Name 4 scientists in Galileo's league.
I can name you 4 better scientists.
Einstein
Darwin
Da Vinci
Arhcimedes
Carl Sagan were all better than galieo
BULL !
Da Vinci was not a scientist and does not stand in Galieo's jockstrap, and made no scientific discovery whatsoever.
Einstein was OK, but was limited, and stole his relative moption idea from Galileo.
Archimedes was very good, but did nt do science.
Sagan is a joke.
Sir Isaac Newton
Michael Faraday
James Clerk Maxwell
Louis Pasteur
Johannes Kepler
Max Planck
Albert Einstein
to name a few...
Einstein stole his relative motion idea from Galileo? Are you ing stoned? Einstein's whole concept of special relativity is based on the idea that electromagnetic phenomena (such as measuring the speed of light) should never be able to betray whether one's inertial reference frame (assuming one is in an inertial frame) is moving relative to another one. Galilean relativity jives well with common sense in the case of mechanical phenomena and is an immediate consequence of Newton's second law then, but it was a of a find by Einstein to show why it should hold outside of mechanics also. As for general relativity, you must have never even heard of the subject to make a claim like that. I suppose his concept of gravity was stolen from Galileo too.
You forgot the most important one: Darwin.
Gotta disagree strongly with you on your last three.
1. Galileo
2. Newton
3. Kepler
4. Darwin
5. Einstein
Newton >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Darwin
The person of the millennium
http://books.google.com/books?id=g6A...esult&resnum=2
There is a direct correlation between growing an epic beard and chiseling your name in human legacy for all of time.
Galileo Galilei -- arguably the most important scientist in modern history
Rolf Lindgren -- a mentally ill alcoholic person from Wisconsin who has delusions that he actually is Galileo Galilei and believes he has secret inside knowledge about the collapse of the World Trade Center.
Oh, Rolf once held a leadership role in his state's Libertarian Party. So, if you were ever thinking to yourself, "Libertarian ideology seems insane," well, there you go.
Just because you don't believe in it doesn't make natural selection not one of the most important breakthroughs in the history of human knowledge.
I think I'll go with the guy who deciphered the language that eventually unlocked the modern era of physics... Without Newton's language other great scientists would not have made their respective breakthroughs in electromagnetism or reaction kinetics... and without these two core discoveries the industrial age, and the subsequent modern technological era would not have been ushered.
Darwin's theories, while groundbreaking, were more observational in nature... as such, they had minimal impact on improving the life of the common man. To me this factor is huge.
In fact, based on the applicability-factor of their discoveries, Darwin wasn't even the most prominent biologist of the 17th, 18th, or 19th centuries...
Mendel > Pasteur >> Darwin
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Cool.
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