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Please join us for a lecture with Professor Peter Nightingale of URI, presented by Dante Society of Westerly! The discussion will take place in the library's Auditorium on the second floor.

Galileo's contributions to developing and popularizing the scientific method have been overshadowed by his persecution by the Inquisition of the Roman Catholic Church. The talk will focus on topics such as:

1.What Einstein had in common with Galileo

2.Galileo's motion experiments in relation to his musical background and that of his family

3.His attempts to solve "that great problem of finding the longitude of a given place on the earth's surface"

4. His explanation of what limits the size of land animals.

Peter Nightingale is a theoretical physicist specializing in computational methods. He got his PhD at the University of Amsterdam in The Netherlands. After postdoctoral positions in Delft and Seattle, he ended up at the University of Rhode Island, where he has been since 1983. In recent years, his focus has been social justice, war, peace, and climate chaos.

For more information or questions please visit: https://dantesocietywesterly.org/