We got “Galileo hate mail” here at the Vatican’s astronomical observatory. It was funny — and not funny. It originated, and originates, in respectable places. And it speaks to the broader problem of ...

Galileo pursued all his bold investigations convinced that Nature followed a Divine order. Just as the Bible represented the dictated word of God, so the natural world embodied God's work. The ...

Galileo Galilei was born on 15 February 1564 in Pisa. The philosopher, mathematician, physicist and astronomer continues to fascinate both experts and lay people today. This year, science historians ...

NARRATOR: It was a time of discord in the Christian world. Threatened by the Protestant Reformation, the Roman Catholic Church demanded strict adherence to its dogma, enforced by the violent threat of ...

As an astrophysicist, Alessandro De Angelis has spent a lifetime chasing the rare and sublime, including particles from the deep universe that are among the most energetic forms of matter known to ...

Alison Abbott is a writer in Munich, Germany. Galileo and the Science Deniers Mario Livio Simon & Schuster (2020) Is there room in the crowded canon for a new biography of Galileo Galilei?

Even in the league of genius polymaths, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei enjoys legendary status. He was the first to systematically study space with a telescope and his inventions include the ...

On the night of January 7, 1610, Galileo Galilei, a resident of Padua, walked onto his balcony and tipped his telescope toward space. He spotted three stars near Jupiter and graphed their positions in ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. An exceptionally rare and valuable copy of a 17th-century book by Galileo Galilei — seemingly ...

Some of the world’s greatest artists and thinkers have turned to each other for guidance and inspiration: Salvador Dalí and Sigmund Freud, Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, Paul Cézanne and ...