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Activities | Books to Buy Make a Scientific BookGalileo published many books about his scientific observations. In 1613, Letters on Sunspots was published. In this book, Galileo not only wrote about his new discoveries, but he also included detailed drawings of the sunspots. You can make a book about your scientific observations, too. MATERIALS Three-ring binder Subject dividers Paper Pencil or pen Hole punch Computer (optional) Scientific magazines (optional) Use the subject dividers to organize a three-ring binder according to the topics that you want to put into your notebook. Include drawings you've made of your observations and detailed information about your experiments. Galileo wrote his Letters on Sunspots in Italian, the common language of the day. He did this in direct defiance of how most scientific books were written in Latin, the language used only by professionally educated people. Galileo wanted everyone to learn about his discoveries. Your binder can also be the place to put articles from magazines or the Internet which you used for research. Punch holes in the pages to add them to the book. Be sure to include the web address of sites you used, as well as each magazine's name, date, publisher, and article's page number. Make a title page for the front page of your book. On the title page to Letters on Sunspots, the coat of arms was printed of the Academy of the Lynxes. Galileo's name appeared as: Galileo Galilei Linceo. He and other members of his scientific academy added Linceo to their signatures. (Linceo means lynx.) Choose a title to add to your signature that represents the name of your academy or your scientific interest. When your book contains the information you want it to have, invite the members of your academy, or a group of friends, to discuss and debate your findings. Each time Galileo published a new book, it always caused a stir. Everyone had an opinion about it, and groups met everywhere to debate his new ideas. |