A professor of Arabic and Islamic Science, Saliba studies the development of planetary theories from late antiquity to the Renaissance. Saliba will speak in Seelye 106. Van Helden directs the Galileo Project at Rice, a comprehensive on-line compendium of scholarship on Galileo and his times. Friday, November 19, weather permitting. The star-gazing dates have been chosen to coincide with the visibility of Jupiter's moons.
All events are free and open to the public.
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