Galileo continued writing in conversational language for his landmark 1632 work, Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del ...

Galileo, often regarded as father of modern science, is considered by some historic writers to have caused his own problems with Spanish Inquisition through his persuasive, entertaining and biting ...

Galileo's drawing of the solar system. Florence, 1611. The exhibit Galileo and His Ingenious Discoveries, is previewed at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics on Feb. 4. The drawings ...

The book includes simple drawings of the moons’ positions during January 1610. In the book’s introduction, Galileo suggests naming the satellites the Medicean Stars (Medicean Sidera) after his wealthy ...

Galileo was the first person to observe the rings of Saturn. He spent hour after hour on painstaking drawings of the Moon through its phases, observed Venus and Mars, and even made sketches of ...

Though sunspots have been observed since antiquity, Thomas Harriot, Galileo Galilei, Christoph Scheiner, and the father-son team David and Johannes Fabricius share credit for the first ...

By recreating the conditions of the great astronomer’s observations and applying Spörer’s law in the light of modern statistics, an international collaborative group led by Nagoya University in Japan ...

It was not Galileo Galilei or Thomas Harriot but Johannes Kepler who left the earliest datable sunspot drawing. An international team led by Nagoya University in Japan has made a significant ...

Over the years, his design improved. His final telescope could magnify objects as much as 30 times. 1610: Moon Illustrations from Galileo’s own drawings in Sidereus Nuncius (The Starry Messenger) ...

Galileo was nearly 30 years Gentileschi’s elder, and is celebrated as the world’s first modern scientist. He invented his own telescope, astrolabe, compass, and a precursor to the thermometer.

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis makes a practice of reviving underperformed contemporary operas. This season’s example is Philip Glass’s “Galileo Galilei” (2002), a chamber piece that ...