Galileo Galilei, the renowned Italian astronomer and physicist, made groundbreaking contributions to science in the 16th and ...

In the previous edition, we focused on the European Renaissance and examined how Islamic astronomers influenced science to evolve in this direction. In this edition we cover the works of Brahe, Kepler ...

Today, Nicolaus Copernicus is hailed by many historians as the originator of heliocentrism, one of the first steps towards modern cosmology and away from the Aristotelian cosmology which had ...

When asked who was the first to propose the heliocentric theory—that is, the one in which the Sun is the center of the universe and the planets revolve around it—the usual answer is Copernicus.

This column is written for fundamentalist conservatives. For the rest of you, please continue reading to understand a major issue in today’s political and religious spheres. Who was Galileo Galilei ...

Researchers discovered a 500-year-old compass in a hidden chamber in Frombork, Poland, possibly used by Copernicus, shedding ...

Figure 1 – Image showing the motion of Mars from earth over time; notice how it moves backwards. All planets or wandering stars have similar motion, but the most noticeable is Mars. When commissioned ...