Marietta College is excited to offer a free, public showing of “Galileo: The Power of the Telescope” at 7:00 p.m., Thursday, November 13th, in the Anderson Hancock Planetarium.
The film takes the audience back in time to Pisa, Italy, to experience Galileo’s early experiments with gravity and the laws of motion, his advocacy of the idea that the Earth revolves around the sun, and his work with early telescopes. We see how his keen observations culminated in “The Starry Messenger,” an early masterpiece in which Galileo described all his dazzling discoveries in a straightforward, easy to understand way.
Each public show includes a live presentation about the current night sky, followed by the full-dome planetarium video and a Q&A period. Donations are welcome, however educational experiences in our planetarium are free and open to the public. Seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis.