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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They met in the same gray Renaissance palace where the Inquisition put Galileo on trial. But the Vatican called last week's meeting a mere "series of talks." Over coffee, a Dominican priest- theologian, Edward Schillebeeckx, 65, clad casually in a tweed sports jacket, sat answering respectful questions from three other theologians. In case of need, a theological counsel for the defense, Schillebeeckx's dean at Nijmegen University in The Netherlands, stood by in an adjacent room...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Not Quite a Heresy Trial | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

...latest flood of information from these Jovian satellites would have thoroughly awed the great Italian Scientist Galileo, who discovered them 369 years ago. Moving at speeds approaching 45,000 m.p.h., the 1,800-lb. spacecraft swept by Callisto, the oldest, outermost and apparently smoothest of the Galilean moons...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: It's the Robots' Turn, by Jove! | 7/23/1979 | See Source »

...available in the words of Seneca "Unblest is he who thinks himself unblest") in ancient times or those of Abe Lincoln ("Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be") in a more recent epoch. Happiness, in short, awaits its Newton, its Galileo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Scientific Pursuit of Happiness | 3/19/1979 | See Source »

...visitor to Jupiter could, of course, neglect its moons, especially the four largest, which were discovered by Galileo in 1610. Higher-powered telescopes have since discerned at least 13 natural satellites, but little has been learned about them. Voyager is now lifting that veil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Intimate Glimpses of a Giant | 3/12/1979 | See Source »

...second each second. Einstein took an approach entirely different from Newton. The 17th century master had noted what seemed to be a remarkable coincidence: gravity acted in the same way on all bodies, regardless of their mass. That could be shown by an apocryphal experiment of Galileo's in which objects of different weight dropped from the Tower of Pisa were said to strike the ground at virtually the same instant (any difference being due to air resistance). Einstein offered an explanation. Acceleration caused by gravity, he said, is indistinguishable from that caused by other forces. I That proposition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover: The Year of Dr. Einstein | 2/19/1979 | See Source »

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