Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei peered through his newly improved 20-power homemade telescope at the planet Jupiter. He ...

Nearly 415 years ago to the day astronomer Galileo Galilei discovered the moons surrounding Jupiter looking through his homemade telescope.

Galileo is one of the most famous scientists ever, both for his groundbreaking discoveries and his willingness to stand by his theories in opposition to conventional thought. His persecution by the ...

Putting truth on trial Armed with his discoveries, Galileo converted to Copernicanism, the thoughts of Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), who had proposed that the sun was the ...

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Stephen Hawking was born exactly 300 years after Galileo Galilei died. Their death and birth, exactly 300 years apart on ...

IN looking through the “Dialoghi delle Nuove Scienze” of Galileo, I came unexpectedly on a passage * containing two remarkable discoveries in acoustics, which I should have confidently ...

Stephen Hawking was born on the 300th anniversary of Galileo's death ... of Space-Time but soon afterwards made a startling discovery. It had always been thought that nothing could escape a ...