2021.01.17.
Sir Galileo
In the summer sky, four hundred years agoThe stars and planets, intrigued
Were certainly wondering, looking down-here
Who could that nose-up man possibly be
Sir , curious scientist
Looked restlessly into the sky
In the world, with time, something changed:
The whole universe started to sing
The Earth rotates, rotating around the Sun
Mars doesn't want to wage war anymore1
Jupiter waves, with a rascally glance2
Venus, Mercury, Neptune, with Pluto
Millions of stars, with the most beautiful names
Uranus, Saturnus with all its rings
If you lose your way and don't know where to go
Just search the sky, Sir Galileo
Brilliant scientist, he used to look up there
With his monocular,3at the moon in the blue
I wouldn't quite know if it happened during those nights
But he fell in love with its light4
The sun at twilight, setting on the sea
Started to play with the red clouds
That's when he discovered
And that's why today everybody sings like this:
The Earth rotates, rotating around the Sun
Mars doesn't want to wage war anymore
Jupiter waves, with a rascally glance
Venus, Mercury, Neptune, with Pluto
Millions of stars, with the most beautiful names
Uranus, Saturnus with all its rings
If you lose your way and don't know where to go
Just search the sky, Sir Galileo
In the summer sky, four hundred years ago
Looking at the stars, intrigued
Modern science was rehearsing
And that year was 16096
The Earth rotates, rotating around the Sun
Mars doesn't want to wage war anymore
Jupiter waves, with a rascally glance
Venus, Mercury, Neptune, with Pluto
Millions of stars, with the most beautiful names
Uranus, Saturnus with all its rings
If you lose your way and don't know where to go
Just search in the sky the pole star
- 1. Planet Mars borrows his name from the homonym .
- 2. Probably refers to the : a massive storm which has been raging on the planet at least for 360 years, based on attested observations.
- 3. For a long time, Galileo was regarded as 'the inventor of monocular'. Although the monocular wasn't a new invention, Galileo was among the first to improve it for astronomical purposes.
- 4. Galileo long observed the moon, and his detailed illustrations of its irregular surface were among the first to circulate in the academic world of the time, which believed the moon to have a perfectly flat surface, like all astronomical bodies.
- 5. In the years, Galileo became progressively blind due to having long observed the sun through a monocular without proper protection.
- 6. In this year, Galileo pointed a monocular to the sky for the first time.