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 ...

On a cold January day in 1642, Galileo Galilei took his last breath ... His resilience in the face of persecution laid the foundation for modern physics and inspired generations of scientists ...

But across his long career, nothing beats the time he spent in a Florentine library where he handled some of the original observing notes written by Galileo Galilei, the Italian astronomer who ...