Galileo Galilei was the founder of modern physics. To assess such a claim requires that we make a giant leap of the imagination to transport us to a state of ignorance about even the most ...

Galileo Galilei – often referred to just as Galileo – is someone who often needs no introduction. An Italian astronomer, physicist, mathematician, and philosopher, Galileo was a polymath who ...

On a cold January day in 1642, Galileo Galilei took his last breath, silenced by age but never by the inquisitors who tried to break his spirit. Exactly 300 years later, on January 8, 1942 ...

Nature of the nebulae In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei used the newly invented telescope to show that the Milky Way was composed of a huge number of faint stars. For the next 300 years, astronomers ...

GALILEO: Good morning, guys, I hope you're having a lovely day. I am Galileo Galilei, a scientist from Italy and I am the man who is making some exciting discoveries around force and I am here ...

In 1609, the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei upended the Earth-centered Ptolemaic view of the universe by determining that the planets circled the sun based on observations made with an early ...

Leonardo da Vinci pioneered the study of human anatomy and Galileo Galilei rocked the Catholic establishment by announcing that the Earth revolved around the Sun. In politics… Liberated from the ...