In January, while examining ancient texts at Italy’s National Central Library of Florence, historian Ivan Malara found an ...
Found in a 16th-century copy of an ancient astronomy treatise, the annotations suggest that the trailblazing scientist ...
Galileo Galilei’s quote, "All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them” reminds ...
Historian Ivan Malara has identified handwritten annotations by Galileo Galilei in the margins of a roughly 500-year-old copy ...
Lost notes reveal Galileo closely studied the ancient Greek astronomer Ptolemy, offering fresh insight into his early scientific thinking.
Education and entertainment are often intertwined to share important stories in engaging ways. Right now, there is a local ...
The renowned physicist, mathematician, and philosopher would later reject the ideas presented in this very book.
Galileo Galilei is going from heretic to hero. The Vatican is recasting the most famous victim of its Inquisition as a man of faith, just in time for the 400th anniversary of Galileo's telescope and ...