Physics – History and Philosophy of Physics
Scientific paper
2011-06-13
Physics
History and Philosophy of Physics
4 pages, 11 figures. Proceedings of the 42nd UAI congress, Padova - Italy, 24-27 September 2009, to appear in Astronomia UAI
Scientific paper
The year 2012 will be the fourth centennial year of the Jesuit Christopher Clavius (1535-1612), known as the Euclid of XVI century and the collaborator of the Pope Gregory XIII for the calendar reformation. In the occasion of the year of astronomy I wrote a short theatre pi\`ece "Celestial encounters" dedicated to the life of Ft. Clavius. He observed two total eclipses from centreline in 1560 in Coimbra and in 1567 in Rome, a fact which is remarkable even for contemporary astronomers. The story is developed around those trips: scientific and religious motivations are put in evidence with historical and fantasy, but realistic, facts. An interregional project between Switzerland and Italy, dedicated to the development of high resolution CMOS camera for astronomy and medical sciences has been entitled to Clavius and will produce high resolution measurements of solar diameter.
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