Here’s a look at the life of renowned theoretical physicist, cosmologist, astronomer and mathematician, Stephen ...

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

To the Editor: Galileo Galilei, who first incurred the Roman Catholic Church's wrath on March 5, 1616, when he was ordered neither to "hold nor defend" the Copernican theory, did not prove the ...

Galileo Galilei (Italian) was the first person credited to observe Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn with a telescope. Thomas Harriot (English) and Simon Marius (German) are two other early ...

Galileo set to work and, by the end of the year, produced his own version with much greater magnification. Early in January 1610, Galileo made a number of discoveries, using the spyglass he ...

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 ...