August 2024 FAS Meeting (Wednesday, August 14)

Please join us for the August meeting of the Forsyth Astronomical Society on Wednesday, August 14. The meeting will be held at the new Kaleideum at 120 West 3rd Street downtown in Winston-Salem, NC.

FAS member Dr. Andrea Nichols will present a program entitled “Observing the Heavens: Galileo’s Revolutionary Discoveries.”

I will be examining the revolutionary change in our view of the cosmos that happened during Galileo’s life, aided by the new technology of telescopes and the printing press. Galileo was often not the first or only observer of new elements (e.g. moons around Jupiter, Milky Way galaxy, our moon, supernova, sunspots, and Saturn’s rings) nor the first inventor of the telescope. Nevertheless, either by the fortune of publishing first or becoming the most famous voice, he was the integral lynchpin radically changing European observational science in the space of a few decades. Galileo will be discussed in relation to contemporary scientists, showing how his discoveries shifted science further away from Aristotelian and Ptolemaic viewpoints.

You don’t have to be a member to attend. If you’re curious and have an interest in astronomy and the universe, come on out! Of course, you can come just for the donuts.

The meeting starts at 7:30 and will conclude with a short business meeting. The doors to the building will open at 7:00 pm. The doors will reman locked. Someone will be there to let you in.

We will meet in the 1st floor La STEAM B room. Enter through the side entrance (Members and Group entrance on the left). Go straight ahead into the meeting room.

When leaving, go out through the same side door and make sure the door is closed tight behind you.

Please DO NOT wander throughout the building – The exhibits are NOT open.

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