At the opening of the new public observatory at the National Air and Space Museum last week, the 17th century astronomer, Galileo, made a surprise appearance. Carrying his telescope, he emerged from ...

Mount Holyoke professor Peterson reviews Galileo's life and works while discussing his contemporaries and predecessors, classical Greek and Roman views, and the interplay between mathematics and the ...

Manjit Kumar hails Galileo by David Wootton, a lucid account of the astronomer's struggles with both celestial and temporal bodies It is a little known fact that in 1532 Copernicus’s sun-centred solar ...

'Galileo and the Science Deniers' is a historical biography on the life of Galileo by astrophysicist Mario Livio which gives a glimpse into the life of a "man who was intellectually radical and well ...