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...what if we could actually see this founding father of modern science in the throes of discovery? Horst Bredekamp, a professor of art history at Berlin's Humboldt University and author of a new book entitled Galilei der Künstler (Galileo the Artist), says we can. He and other experts in Germany and Italy have concluded that five watercolor sketches of a mustard-colored moon drawn in a printer's proof of Sidereus Nuncius are by Galileo's own hand. The first printing of the legendary treatise included copper engravings of the moon believed to be based on different...
...most important Galileo find in more than a century, are in a specimen of Galileo's volume that had long been secreted away in the collection of an anonymous South American. At the request of New York-based rare-books dealer Richard Lan, who now owns it, Bredekamp and his associates examined the drawings over the course of two years, dating paper and ink and comparing brushstrokes with other known Galileo sketches. Bredekamp believes that Galileo, who was overseeing the printing of Sidereus Nuncius, drew the moons on the pages of a proof of the work where copper engravings would...
...Bredekamp, a scholar of both art history and the history of science, says this latest find shows vividly how art and science worked together in Galileo's mind. "It's not that Galileo used drawing just to illustrate the ideas he had already discovered, but that through the movement of his hand he became aware of what he was seeing," says Bredekamp. "Ideas come through drawing." That is something any doodler knows well. But few drawings have ever yielded ideas as revolutionary as those of Galileo...
...redshirting," after the practice of holding back freshman college athletes--is widening the developmental and age gaps among the students. A "typical" kindergarten class contains kids ages 4 to 6 whose level of development varies widely. Some barely know their letters, while others are fairly fluent readers. Sue Bredekamp, editor of a widely used guide for teachers of young children, says, "What teachers tell us is that expectations for kindergartners have become more standardized, while the pool of kids in kindergarten has become more diverse. Some have been in day care and other social situations since they were six months...
...Bredekamp says she hears complaints from kindergarten teachers across the country that "our kids need more play, rather than less, and our curriculum is a mile wide and an inch deep. The pressure is on coverage and not teaching in depth." According to Harriet Egertson, head of the early-learning section of the Nebraska department of education, "When large portions of the day are spent with kids listening instead of doing, then kids who don't learn quite that way fail." More time spent sitting and listening to a teacher may not be appropriate for younger learners, who benefit from...