Student
Work
his is a collection of the
semester projects from HIST
333: Galileo in Context. For this course, Professor Van Helden
requires his students to divide into groups and complete group projects
which are presented as World Wide Web resources as well as traditional
oral presentations.
Astronomy
- Spring 1995 -- Undertook
a series of observations using telescopes of similar imaging quality to
Galileo's.
- Spring 1996 -- Sought to reproduce
Galileo's astronomical findings.
Experiment
- Spring 1995 --
Duplicated Galileo's pendulum, parabola, and inclined experiments.
- Spring 1996 -- Reproduced Galileo's
experiments with inclined planes and musical pitch.
Trial
- Spring 1995 -- A comical and
interesting view of Galileo's subjection to the Inquisition.
- Spring 1996 -- An overview of the
Medieval, Spanish and Roman inquisitions.
Florence
- Spring 1996 -- A cultural,
geographic and historical tour of Renaissance Florence and Tuscany.
galileo@rice.edu