Galileo Galilei was the founder of modern physics ... yet Galileo spent his life unravelling these mysteries. His many discoveries include the law of inertia later used by Isaac Newton as ...

The language of math By his own reckoning, Galileo's most important contribution involved neither the astronomical discoveries that immortalized his name, nor his published defense of Copernicus ...

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 ...

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 today to share them with you.I am here at the top of the Leaning ...

Jupiter’s four largest moons – Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto – were the first ever discovered orbiting another planet. They were spotted by Galileo Galilei more than 400 years ago ...

NASA When the spacecraft’s namesake, Galileo Galilei, first trained his telescope ... proved to be irregularly shaped rocks, and Galileo discovered a tiny moon, Dactyl, circling Ida.

Within months, Galileo had not only learned of the new device but was well on his way to improving its design. In his workshop in Padua, Italy, he discovered that plano-convex and plano-concave ...

The University of Jamestown’s Theatre Department will present Bertolt Brecht’s “Galileo” in the DeNault Auditorium of the ...

"Star Gazing" explores the life and contributions of Galileo Galilei, highlighting his groundbreaking discoveries in astronomy and the challenges he faced from the scientific community and the church.