Galileo and His Ingenious Discoveries invites visitors to explore inventions from Galileo’s era and delve into his writings and discoveries related to geolocation.
EXHIBITION
Galileo and His Ingenious Discoveries
Saturday, February 8 | 10AM to 4PM
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Monday, February 10 | 4PM to 7PM
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Wednesday, February 12 | 4PM to 7PM
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Monday, February 17 | 10AM to 4PM
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Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
31 Caroline St N | Waterloo ON
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This exhibition, which links Galileo’s discoveries and writings to the current concept of satellite geolocation, is housed at the Museo Galileo in Florence.
In 1610, Galileo Galilei discovered the satellites of Jupiter and realized that a sailor capable of observing the eclipses of those satellites could know his own position. The exhibition collects reproductions of instruments and documents both from Galileo’s era and current ones. Replicas of one of Galileo’s two telescopes that have survived to the present day and the jovilabe, an ‘analog computer’ invented by Galileo to calculate celestial motions. While impractical at sea, his technique became fundamental in cartography. Today his techniques have reached space, thanks to the European satellite system for geolocation called, not surprisingly, “Galileo”, which is the most precise in the world, thanks to the Italian atomic clock technology created by Leonardo DaVinci.
Hosted by the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, in collaboration with the Embassy of Italy in Canada and the Galileo Museum in Florence.
With thanks to Professor Alessandro De Angelis, Astrophysicist Università degli Studi di Padova and the Permanent Delegation of Italy to International Organizations in Paris, the Italian Embassy, the Consulate General of Italy in Toronto and the Italian Cultural Institute in Toronto and in Montreal.
PUBLIC LECTURE
COME WITH ME INSIDE A BLACK HOLE
White holes, black holes, and what we do when we do science.
Prof. Carlo Rovelli
Wednesday, February 5 | 7:00PM
LIVESTREAM
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IN-PERSON
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Theatre
31 Caroline St N | Waterloo ON
FREE ADMISSION | OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
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In this captivating public lecture, Prof. Carlo Rovelli will lead the audience on an extraordinary journey towards and into a Black Hole exploring the mysteries of these enigmatic cosmic phenomena, illustrating what we know and what we do not know about these intriguing things. Prof. Rovelli will then introduce the concept of a potential escape through a white hole, based on his work in Loop Quantum Gravity. This exploration will offer a glimpse into his unique approach to science, where imagination, visualization, and creativity complement the rigorous application of mathematics and logic.
ABOUT PROF. CARLO ROVELLI
Carlo Rovelli is a theoretical physicist, and one of the founders of Loop Quantum Gravity. In 2019 he promoted the Peace Dividend Initiative, involving 60 Nobel Laureates in asking for a worldwide collaborative military expenses reduction. He has been included in the 2019 list of the 100 most influential “Global Thinkers” by Foreign Policy magazine and in the 2021 list of The World’s 50 Top Thinkers by Prospect magazine. He has written global best sellers translated in more than 40 languages. Among his awards are the 1996 Xanthopoulos Award for “the best relativist under forty” and the 2024 Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing About Science. He is affiliated to the University of Aix-Marseille, the philosophy department of the Western Ontario University, the Perimeter Institute and the Santa Fe Institute for Complexity, member of the Institute Universitaire de France, honorary professor of the Beijing Normal University, Honoris Causa Laureate of the Universidad de San Martin, Buenos Aires, member of the Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences.