While Galileo is one of the world's most renowned scientists, not many of us know much about his life. This illustrated timeline from the NOVA Web site chronicles Galileo's life -- his education ...

This timeline of humanity's exploration of the moon, provided by NASA, ... 1610: Thomas Harriot and Galileo Galilei drew the first telescopic representation of the moon.

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

On September 20, 1633, the Italian scientist Galileo Galilei is tried by theChurch for teaching that the Earth orbits the sun. As a result, on the Pope’sorder, he was confined to house arrest ...