The director of the Vatican Observatory has launched the “Stories from another world” initiative.
Its title is “Stories from another world” and it will be the event of the year in 2012, on the international scientific stage.
For the first time, “Specola”, the Holy See’s institute for scientific research, is to bring out into the open and display a rich array of documentation, studies and research carried out over centuries and never revealed until now.
The exhibition will be held in Pisa, the city of Galileo Galilei, a deliberate choice. The event will be hosted by the Cassa di Risparmio di Pisa’s (Pisa’s local savings bank) Blue Palace, where an exhibition dedicated to Picasso is coming to an end. An exact date has not been set yet, but the final details are currently being agreed on.
These are the fruit of a collaboration between the Vatican’s “Specola” and Novara’s Fondazione Terra, presided by Ugo Amaldi, who has been studying and treating tumours with protons for the past twenty years (a centre equipped with an accelerator, has already been established in Pavia).
This is a joint venture between two scientific bodies, which led to a meeting between “Specola’s” director, the Jesuit Father, José Funes, to meet Terra’s secretary, Gaudenzio Vanolo and his team, in Novara.
A step taken to launch common initiatives based on research and the promotion of scientific culture, especially among youngsters.
It was the Cordoban cleric himself, to give some forecasts on the Pisa project: “The Vatican City holds many rare documents: telescopes, even a photographic plate that captured the Allen comet. The collaboration will continue with meetings being held periodically, to reflect on science-Church relations. As an institute, “Specola” is an international reference point.
A step taken to launch common initiatives based on research and the promotion of scientific culture, especially among youngsters.
It was the Cordoban cleric himself, to give some forecasts on the Pisa project: “The Vatican City holds many rare documents: telescopes, even a photographic plate that captured the Allen comet. The collaboration will continue with meetings being held periodically, to reflect on science-Church relations. As an institute, “Specola” is an international reference point.
After Pope Gregory XIII asked for its establishment in the Sixteenth century, the institute has been operating in the Vatican for 40 years, creating photographic maps of the sky.
After urban growth started, it was moved to the Pope’s summer residence at Castel Gandolfo.
In 1981, as a result of the excessive artificial brightness which made astronomical observations difficult, a second research centre, called “Vatican Observatory Research”, was founded in Tucson, Arizona.
In 1993, in collaboration with the Steward Observatory, “Specola” completed the constructions of the hi tech Vatican telescope, which is on of the world’s most efficient apparatuses.”
After urban growth started, it was moved to the Pope’s summer residence at Castel Gandolfo.
In 1981, as a result of the excessive artificial brightness which made astronomical observations difficult, a second research centre, called “Vatican Observatory Research”, was founded in Tucson, Arizona.
In 1993, in collaboration with the Steward Observatory, “Specola” completed the constructions of the hi tech Vatican telescope, which is on of the world’s most efficient apparatuses.”