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 ...

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 ...

Galileo Galilei was born on February 15, 1564 in Pisa, Italy, to Vincenzo Galilei, a famous musician, and Giulia Ammannati, a housewife. The eldest of six children, he went to school in a ...

The unremarkable-looking object is in fact one of the most important artifacts in the history of science: it's one of only two surviving telescopes known to have been made by Galileo Galilei ...