{"id":11241,"date":"2015-08-21T15:03:06","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T19:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11241"},"modified":"2015-08-21T15:12:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-21T19:12:00","slug":"video-galileos-fingers-astronomy-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11241","title":{"rendered":"Video: &#8220;Galileo&#8217;s Fingers&#8221; &#8211; astronomy history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/astromaven.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_d\">Astro Maven<\/a>\u00a0Rick Boozer points me to the video below showing\u00a0a talk he gave<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>at the University of NC at Asheville as the guest of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.astroasheville.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Astronomy Club of Asheville<\/a>. In it I discuss astronomical history using photos I shot at the Museo Galileo in Florence, Italy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FZq1KRmxLoA?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astro Maven\u00a0Rick Boozer points me to the video below showing\u00a0a talk he gave at the University of NC at Asheville as the guest of the Astronomy Club of Asheville. In it I discuss astronomical history using photos I shot at the Museo Galileo in Florence, Italy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-history"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2Vj","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7665,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7665","url_meta":{"origin":11241,"position":0},"title":"Resource guides: Astronomy of Many Cultures + Women in Astronomy","author":"TopSpacer","date":"May 5, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Prof. Andrew Fraknoi of the Astronomy Department at Foothill College passed along this item: Two New Resource Guides for Those Who Teach or Explain Astronomy \u201cUnheard Voices,\u201d a set of resource guides about the astronomy of many cultures and about the contributions of women to astronomy, is now available on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Astronomy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Astronomy","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=12"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2533,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2533","url_meta":{"origin":11241,"position":1},"title":"Astronomy Cast &#8211; A look at space stations past and future","author":"TopSpacer","date":"May 29, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The Astronomy Cast\u00a0 is a weekly audio webcast program that covers a wide range of space related topics. 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