provides an historical backdrop of 17th-century Italy, including the spread of the bubonic plague, the role of the Inquisition, and the influence of powerful court families. examines Galileo's ...

Galileo pursued all his bold investigations convinced that Nature followed a Divine order. Just as the Bible represented the dictated word of God, so the natural world embodied God's work. The ...

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 elementary ...