Uraniborg, an art + music collection by Fleur Helsingor

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this page honors Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)

If I had a Time Machine
I'd pick up Galileo and bring him here to the year 2000
I'd invite a Florentine-speaking friend to come along,
who'd tell the Professor from Padua "not to freak out at all these electric lights"
and that "there's a rocket ship with your name on it!"
We can see things that you could only believe to be true.
Take a look: this all happened because you were right.
We remember you, Galileo!

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The music is a fugue scored for synthesizer, percussive organ, fretless bass, and percussion, and the theme comes from Jacob Miller's song Tenement Yard.

The image is a digital rendering of the surface of Io, Jupiter's moon.

Quotation taken from Galileo's Sidereus Nuncius (Astronomical Message). The "Medicean planets" are now known as Callisto, Europa, Ganymede and Io.