Here are two more of my short BBC talks on Science and Imagination. They both relate to Galileo and the role of art and imagination in the discoveries he made.
In the first, I compare two pioneers of telescopes, wondering why Galileo and Thomas Harriott saw such very different Moons.
In the second, I delve a little more into the Galileo's mind, exploring how the artistic vision that so helped him with the Moon could occlude his understanding of the motions of the planets.
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