Galileo Galilei is arguably the most important scientist to ever live. He perfected the first telescopes, turned them toward ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...