Galileo 2013 imdb
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In the Footsteps of Galileo
Abstract
Italian scientific biopics experienced a period of extraordinary media hype in the 1970s, when some intellectuals personally committed to bringing the lives of the scientists of the past to television in order to discuss the relationship between knowledge and power in the present. Nevertheless, might we properly speak of “Italian-style” historical-scientific fictional drama? To answer this question, we will focus on Roberto Rossellini, Liliana Cavani and, above all, Lucio Lombardo Radice, a promoter, scientific consultant, author and presenter of, and sometimes even actor in, some of the most controversial of these scientific biopics. This article aims, first of all, to reconstruct this history, explaining the reasons for the success of the genre, starting in the 1960s, and the crisis it underwent in the 1980s; secondly, to ascertain the influences these ideological works exerted on choices, approaches and styles of the next generation of science historians and communicators.
1 Introduction: A Matter of Empathy
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Aiman Abdallah
German television presenter (b. 1965)
Aiman Abdallah (born 1965) is a German television presenter for the television show Galileo at ProSieben. He is also a former rugby national player, playing for the Berliner SV 1892 Rugby.[1]
Life and career
Abdallah was born in Bad Kreuznach. He is of Egyptian descent. From 1984 to 1991, he studied computer science at the TU Berlin. From 1987 to 1993, he worked as a freelance employee at ZDF. From 1990 to 1993, he worked as a freelance editor for various production companies. Around the same time, he worked as a freelancer in the sports department of the television station RIAS-TV in Berlin. From 1993 to 1994, Abdallah worked as a sports editor for the international broadcaster Deutsche Welle and as a sports presenter for the radio station Kiss-FM in Berlin. In 1995, he moved to n-tv, where he was a sports editor until 1997. Then, Abdallah worked as a sports moderator and announcer at Premiere in Hamburg until 1998.[2]
Abdallah has lived separately from his wife since 2003 and has three ch
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Great Italians of the past: Galileo Galilei
Galileo Galilei is one of the personalities that have most marked the history of human knowledge. Not considered by chance the father of contemporary science, the great scholar was born in Pisa on February 15, 1564.
The first period of scientific achievements of the Tuscan physicist was spent in Padua, where he was appointed professor of mathematics at the University. It is in Padua that Galileo adhered everyday more convinced to the heliocentric theory by Copernicus, the Polish astronomer who was the first to conceive the Sun as fixed at the center of the Universe and the Solar System and the Earth moving around it, along with the other planets.
His conviction increased after reading Keplero's "Mysterium cosmographicum". So the genius from Pisa, after having designed experiments in this regard, formulates the "Law on the free fall of bodies", sensing a proportionality between speed and distance traveled by a falling object.
After the first discoveries in the field of mathematics and physics, he decided to direct its studies towards
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