Publicly posting syllabi is an effort to prevent the teaching of topics that right-wing actors deem “unacceptable.” ...

Galileo Galilei, the renowned Italian astronomer and physicist, made groundbreaking contributions to science in the 16th and 17th centuries. His use of the telescope led to significant astronomical ...

Using ground-penetrating radar, researchers discovered an underground chamber containing a 500-year-old compass near Copernicus’ burial site. The compass resembles the one often depicted with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ROSE SHOW arranged by Winchelsea Garden Society will take place on Saturday June 7th in St Thomas’s Church. This annual Show ...

Ibn-al-shatir's lunar model from which Copernicus is reported to have borrowed in composing his cosmological model. Credit: This work is in the public domain in the United States. New research has ...

Ibn-al-shatir's lunar model from which Copernicus is reported to have borrowed in composing his cosmological model. Credit: This work is in the public domain in the ...