For these achievements, Albert Einstein dubbed Galileo "the father of modern physics—indeed of modern science altogether." ...

Galileo Galilei was the founder of modern physics. To assess such a claim requires that we make a giant leap of the imagination to transport us to a state of ignorance about even the most ...

Biagioli chronicles how Galileo, then a 46-year-old professor in Padua, parlayed his discoveries and technical achievements into a higher-status position in Florence under the patronage of the ...