The drama of Galileo's trial by the Inquisition in 1633 has cast him as a renegade astronomer who scoffed at the Bible and drew fire from a Church blind to reason. Indeed, the myth of the martyred ...

But what is the primary cause of the tides there and elsewhere? Despite what frequent Venice visitor Galileo Galilei thought, tides are indeed related to the motion of the moon (and to a lesser ...

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: 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 ...

While Galileo Galilei fancied himself a strong purveyor of both the scientific and theological, his moral core of truth at the center of his existence faced a brutal reckoning — one that ultimately ...

Io, first discovered by Galileo Galilei in 1610, is just slightly larger ... The rocky moon’s surface is covered with ...

Caldwell Lighting Collection of approximately 100,000 photographs and 8,000 presentation drawings relating to the design ... They include significant holdings of works by Galileo Galilei, Johannes ...

Still others mocked Harris, who chairs the National Space Council, as President Biden’s “space czar” and “Galileo Harris,” after the 17th-century astronomer Galileo Galilei.

Ironically, some of its sticking power may have come from a contemporary of Descartes whom the Church abhorred: the ...

Around the same time that Rene Descartes was saying "I think therefore I am", the Catholic church found the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei "vehemently suspect of heresy" for suggesting that ...

Visitors come here to pay respects to such notable Italians as artist Michelangelo, scientist Galileo Galilei and political philosopher Niccolò Machiavelli, whose tombs and memorials are housed here.