Galileo, the Starry Messenger
Four hundred years ago, one could count on a Tuscan by the name of Galileo Galilei to engage inquiring minds in thought provoking conversations about physics, mathematics, philosophy and astronomy.
Share in that tradition and join us this StarryTelling evening with Mike Francis of the Stars Science Theater. With the dramatic skills of an actor, he will reveal how Galileo, the Starry Messenger, made his celestial discoveries which, over time, changed the way the world looked at the universe.
Using two lenses, a spyglass, he found the craters and mountains on the moon, the 4 moons of Jupiter and tracked phases of Venus and more.
Francis is a fun-loving actor/instructor who engages the audience in the process of learning as fun. Remember, when you leave the theater tonight, Look Up!
Mike Francis, an actor and presenter fromerly with the Charles Hayden Planetarium at the Boston Museum of Science, talks, walks, teaches, reads and eats astronomy. Yes, this man can make a solar system from his lunch. His interactive dramatic presentations of astronomy have entertained children and adults in museums, libraries and schools --- and now, all the way from Massachusetts, Mike Francis is coming to Kensington!
