Recreate Experiments from History: Inform the Future from the Past: Galileo

Lecture Notes

SES #	LECTURES TOPICS	LECTURES SUMMARY	LECTURES SLIDES
1	Introductions, looking at pictures, frame activity, looking with tubes		(PDF - 1.5MB)
2	Discussion of Bio, activity with frames, string, mirrors, drawing devices; lenses and looking outside	(PDF - 1.3MB)	(PDF)
3	Discussion of frame activities, diagrams, Galileo compass, spectacles, lens activities	(PDF)
4	Glass lab visit, explorations with lenses and viewing	(PDF - 1.3MB) (PDF - 1.6MB)	(PDF)
5	Harvard instrument collection and Houghton library	(PDF)
6	Discussion of Harvard visit, motion activities, lens, powers of ten	(PDF)
7	Discussion of settle reading, of motion; motion activities, discussion, telescope viewing	(PDF)
8	Visit to MIT museum; slide rule collection	(PDF)
9 and 10	Telescope viewing, motion, light and lens	(PDF)
11	Motions, lenses viewing in the hall, Westford observatory	(PDF)