I missed blogging about this on the actual day but...

Three days ago was the anniversary of August Ferdinand Möbius' birth.

Nov. 17, 1790: A Rather One-Sided Affair

Möbius is best known for his strip or band with one side and one edge. As a character he plays a crucial role in Brian Lumley's Necroscope series, providing Harry Keogh with the mathematical formulae to travel from place to place through a void, including to the world of the Wamphiri.

In other news of the scientific variety, Museum finds astronomer Galileo's lost body parts

Two fingers and a tooth belonging to famed astronomer Galileo Galilei have been found more than 100 years after going missing, a museum in Italy says.

A collector bought the items, lost since 1905, at auction and gave them to Florence's History of Science Museum.

The museum said it had no doubt about the authenticity of the items.

Scientists cut the parts - plus another finger and a vertebrae - from Galileo's body in 1737, almost 100 years after he died.

Kind of gruesome, really. There's a picture of his middle finger in the article.

Look to the stars

Cory Gross at Voyages Extraordinaires has an excellent post on the 400th anniversary of Galileo's demonstration of the telescope, just past. Check it out (it has several links to follow), along with this video 'Ginga' ('Galaxy') by Misia, the official theme song for the Japanese International Year of Astronomy committee, for the magic we have when looking at the stars. Thanks, Cory.