Linda Hall Library has a scanned first edition, as well as a scanned pirated edition from Frankfurt, also from 1610. The first telescopes appeared in the Netherlands in 1608 when Middelburg spectacle-maker Hans Lippershey tried to obtain a patent on one.

Como una especie de contraparte a los argumentos que décadas antes se daban, solo para demostrar lo absurdo que es esto de la superioridad de una raza por sobre otra. The danger of “personal truths”, although attractive and appealing, replacing objective truths — even if our mammalian brains seem to prefer the easiness of polarization into “us” and “them”. Bellarmine died in 1621 but the Church held the power of life and death and Galileo’s assertion brought him before the Inquisition in Rome in 1633. I just find this book to be a bit too boring, simplistic, and dotted with Tyson's mild tone deafness.He goes on to show how the same would be true for every 30-year span after that, up through the advent of the World Wide Web, smartphones, social media, GPS and electric cars between 1990 and 2020.

From 1930 to 1960, airplanes break the sound barrier; we see the beginning of the space age; the laser is invented; atom bombs are used; and television becomes an important source of information and entertainment. For five seasons, beginning in the fall of 2006, Tyson appeared as the on-camera host of PBS NOVA’s spinoff program NOVA ScienceNOW, which is an accessible look at the frontier of all the science that shapes the understanding of our place in the universe. Mark, its 52-year-old hero, who lectures at New York’s Hayden Planetarium but feels he has missed his vocation as an astronomer, occasionally reminded me of Uncle Vanya without the rich sense of life that accompanies the Chekhovian consciousness of failure. Each law, however, gets its own chapter: “Conceal Your Intentions,” “Always Say Less Than Necessary,” “Pose as a Friend, Work as a Spy,” and so on.It was the first published scientific work based on observations made through a telescope, and it contains the results of Galileo's early observations of the imperfect and mountainous Moon, of hundreds of stars not visible to the naked eye in the Milky Way and in certain constellations, and of the Medicean Stars (later Galilean moons) that appeared to be circling Jupiter. Yet while Tyson extols the virtue of a skeptical mind-set in scientific inquiry, he often comes off as none-too-skeptical in his discussion of how that mind-set can be applied to human and political affairs. The defendant is charged with the possession of 1,700 milligrams of cocaine, and he points out that the charge is phrased that way rather than as the more accurate 1.