Source: NOVA: "Galileo's Battle for the Heavens" This resource can be found on the NOVA: "Galileo's Battle for the Heavens" Web site. The motion of objects fascinated Galileo throughout his life. When ...

Galileo's place in history is legendary: a titan among the earliest of the modern scientists. The first to use the telescope for astronomy, Galileo observed: Yet, as Thony Christie points out for Aeon ...

Italy's National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), in collaboration with the Galileo Galilei Institute (GGI) of Florence, have awarded the first Galileo Medal to Juan Maldacena "for his pioneering ...

Galileo significantly advanced our understanding of physics and astronomy. His telescopic observations revealed features of the moon, sun, and stars, challenging existing beliefs. He improved the ...

Perhaps Galileo ought to have recognized that his teaching of Copernican theory -- that the Sun, not Earth, was the center of the universe -- would not be tolerated by the leaders of the Roman ...

TWO hundred and ninety-eight years ago to-day (November 5, 1581) Galileo Galilei, then a boy between seventeen and eighteen, matriculated as a medical student in the University of Pisa. At that time ...

There are so many books about Galileo, author Dan Hofstadter remarks, so why another? Given that 2009 marks the 400th anniversary of the first astronomical use of the telescope, where Galileo’s role ...

Galileo Galilei was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as the "polymath from Pisa" or the "father of modern physics". His contributions to astronomy include ...