14 Apr
2011
14 Apr
'11
1:49 p.m.
What Sobel didn't mention was that all the male guests were crowded around the spyglass once Galileo turned it onto the public baths, from his vantage point on the hill. It was "Ladies Night" at the baths. One enthusiastic guest suggested calling it a "boob tube". On 4/13/11, Canopus56 <canopus56@yahoo.com> wrote:
Dava Sobel's 1999 classic _Galileo's Daughter_ (42-43) describes a star party held on another April 14 - in 1611 - on the highest hill above Rome.