Scientists to solve astronomical riddle using Galileo DNA

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Scientists to solve astronomical riddle using Galileo DNA
January 19th, 2009 in General Science / Other




Italian scientists are trying to get Galileo's DNA in order to figure out how the astronomer forged groundbreaking theories on the universe while gradually becoming blind, a historian said Monday.



Scientists at Florence's Institute and Museum of the History of Science want to exhume the body of 17th Century astronomer Galileo Galilei to find out exactly what he could see through his telescope.



The Italian astronomer -- who built on the work of predecessor Nicolaus Copernicus to develop modern astronomy with the sun as the centre of the universe -- had a degenerative eye disease that eventually left him blind.



"If we succeed, thanks to DNA, in understanding how this disease distorted his sight, it could bring about important discoveries for the history of science," said the institute's director, Paolo Galluzzi.



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Now is the time to clone Galileo!
 
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Galileo said:
The Italian astronomer -- who built on the work of predecessor Nicolaus Copernicus
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So does this mean that Copernicus > Galileo!? :eye-poppi

What would analysing his DNA tell them that they couldn't learn from
getting a modern sufferer to squint through their "exact replica" of
Galileo's telescope?
 
Please donate to the cause generously. We need $390,000 to dig up Galilei!!
 
TX50 said:
So does this mean that Copernicus > Galileo!? :eye-poppi

What would analysing his DNA tell them that they couldn't learn from
getting a modern sufferer to squint through their "exact replica" of
Galileo's telescope?
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No, it doesn't. Copernicus did not start a revolution.

They also want to did up Galileo's daughter as well. Finding out the DNA of the greatest human who has ever lived can only have positive benefits for mankind. We could use Galileo to clone a superior race of humans.
 
Galileo said:
No, it doesn't. Copernicus did not start a revolution.

They also want to did up Galileo's daughter as well. Finding out the DNA of the greatest human who has ever lived can only have positive benefits for mankind. We could use Galileo to clone a superior race of humans.
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Oooo god. Galileo was not the greatest man who ever lived.
 
Galileo said:
No, it doesn't. Copernicus did not start a revolution.

They also want to did up Galileo's daughter as well. Finding out the DNA of the greatest human who has ever lived can only have positive benefits for mankind. We could use Galileo to clone a superior race of humans.
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I am assuming you have never heard of Leonardo da Vinci.
 
fuelair said:
I am assuming you have never heard of Leonardo da Vinci.
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da Vinci didn't stand in Galileo's jock-strap. Da Vinci is a footnote in the history of the scientific revolution. He's a good painter.
 
Galileo said:
da Vinci didn't stand in Galileo's jock-strap. Da Vinci is a footnote in the history of the scientific revolution. He's a good painter.
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Your kidding me right. I don't even know how to go about arguing this because it is so freaking insane. I don't normally prescribe any sort of importance to scientists because of the varied nature of science.
 
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Galileo said:
da Vinci didn't stand in Galileo's jock-strap. Da Vinci is a footnote in the history of the scientific revolution. He's a good painter.
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:boggled:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci


Leonardo is revered[2] for his technological ingenuity. He conceptualised a helicopter, a tank, concentrated solar power, a calculator, the double hull and outlined a rudimentary theory of plate tectonics.[4] Relatively few of his designs were constructed or were even feasible during his lifetime,[nb 3] but some of his smaller inventions, such as an automated bobbin winder and a machine for testing the tensile strength of wire, entered the world of manufacturing unheralded.[nb 4] As a scientist, he greatly advanced the state of knowledge in the fields of anatomy, civil engineering, optics, and hydrodynamics.[5]
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But who cares about anatomy, civil engineering, optics, and hydrodynamics, eh? That's just BORING stuff! :rolleyes:
 
fuelair said:
Well, yeah, but Galileo was good in one field and Leonardo was only like the epitome of Renaissance Man - for real. Oh, wait, that means I was right - Galileo was smart in one field, Leonardo in multiple. Point, Leonardo.
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Galileo was smart in multiple fields. How the hell do you build a better telescope without being a master of multiple fields? Point No one.
 
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Guys - this is Galileo (the poster)'s "thing". It's impolite to try to hard-land a delusion.
 
shadron said:
Guys - this is Galileo (the poster)'s "thing". It's impolite to try to hard-land a delusion.
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I have to say that the only thing more insane than his stick is the news article. I thought the most logical explanation to his blindness was staring at the sun. Once again I would appreciate if anyone but Galileo addressed that fact.
 
technoextreme said:
I thought the most logical explanation to his blindness was staring at the sun..
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I know Newton did that, he [says that he] had to lie in a darkened room for
days on end until his sight came back. Did Galileo do it too?
 
technoextreme said:
I have to say that the only thing more insane than his stick is the news article. I thought the most logical explanation to his blindness was staring at the sun. Once again I would appreciate if anyone but Galileo addressed that fact.
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He also developed severe eye infections.
 
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