Getting started on the blog a day late this week. Spent the day yesterday driving back to Nashville from a visit to Asheville, NC. We had a gloomy, but pretty-in-a-melancholy-way drive through the Smokies on Friday, but yesterday low temps and rain made it a pretty slow, tense drive, and didn’t leave a lot of time for blogging. By the time we got back we opted for tacos and margaritas and pretended it was Sunday.

This week we celebrate the birthday of Galileo Galilei on February 15, 1642. Galileo was a telescope pioneer persecuted by the Catholic Church for affirming Copernican notions of a heliocentric universe. In Galileo’s time science, magic and religion were divided by porous, shifting lines that make it hard for us to look back and separate the sorcerers from the scientists.

Here’s a two-part documentary that illuminates the magical roots of science, giving us a glimpse at Galileo and his world…

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