Few figures shine as brightly as Galileo Galilei, an Italian philosopher whose contributions to astronomy revolutionized the understanding of the stars. "Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) has always played ...

Galileo Galilei was the most brilliant astronomer of his time, armed with a telescope and an obsession with truth. In the ...

On Jan. 7, 1610, Galileo Galilei turned his self-built telescope, which he had recently made improvements to, towards Jupiter. There he noticed three spots of light. Though he first concluded they ...

In the course of his life, Galileo clashed with other philosophers and religious figures who were committed to the geocentric ...

In Bucktown, Trap Door Theatre’s production of Bertolt Brecht’s Galileo is brave, chaotic, and full of spectacle. Brecht’s 1938 play (with the full name Life of Galileo), written originally in German ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On July 30, 1610, the famous astronomer Galileo Galilei became the first to observe rings around the planet Saturn. Shortly after ...

A rare group of books featuring volumes by Nicolaus Copernicus, Isaac Newton, and Galileo Galilei that were collected by the late astronomer—and eclipse chaser—Jay Pasachoff is coming to the auction ...

The classic image of Galileo Galilei has the 16th century Italian scientist dropping two balls of differing weights from the Leaning Tower of Pisa and observing them hitting the ground at the same ...

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