Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Galileo is finally going to see an eye doctor

Apparently, the father of astronomy had serious vision problems in the second half of his life, and now, a group of crazy scientists want to exhume his body for DNA testing, hoping to find exactly wat was wrong with him and how this condition might have affected his findings.

One of the freaks, Paolo Galluzzi, director of the Museum of History and Science in Florence, said:

"A DNA test will allow us to determine to what measure the pathology of the eye may have 'tricked' him (...) If we discover the pathology he suffered, we can formulate a mathematical model that simulates the effects it would have had on what he saw and using the same type of telescope he used we can get closer to what he actually saw,"

So, after almost 400 years of bad eyesight, Galileo Galilei is finally going to an eye doctor. It was about time, Gali! Man, talking about stubborn...
By the way, are you thinking what I'm thinking? Yep! DNA testings on the mummy of Cleopatra, to see what she saw (mainly in her bedroom mirror)!

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