Word: galileo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...GALILEO...
...before the little ship was boosted along by Jovian gravity on a flight path that will eventually carry it out of the solar system, it gathered more information about Jupiter than had all astronomers since Galileo first pointed his crude telescope at the planet more than three centuries ago. Now, after a lengthy study of Pioneer's wealth of data-including 80 photographs-scientists have put together a totally new image of the king of planets...
...20th century at the same location with Bronowski's fearful, yet hopeful look into the future. In between he leads the way through a catalogue of human accomplishment, from Pythagoras on the mathematical laws that govern the universe to the revolutionary observations of Ptolemy, Copernicus and Galileo; from Newton's experiments on the diffraction of light to James Watson and Francis Crick's discovery of the key to the alphabet of life, the master molecule...
...Industrial Revolution also gave science a conscience. Men like Galileo and Newton believed that science's only responsibility was to tell the truth. The idea that science is a social enterprise dates from the Industrial Revolution, when both scientists and politicians faintly began to grasp the impact of invention and technology on man and nature. "We are surprised that we cannot trace a social sense further back," writes Bronowski, "because we nurse the illusion that the Industrial Revolution ended a golden...
...special English courses for the sizable minority of students who speak only Chinese (TIME, Feb. 4). On another front, attorneys are preparing to defend the city against a $500,000 suit filed on behalf of a boy who claims that he was allowed to graduate from Galileo High School with only fifth-grade reading skills. As a result, he is unqualified for any job "other than the most demeaning, unskilled, low-paid labor...