Galileo was convicted of a strong suspicion of heresy. Although "was never formally charged with heresy" is technically true, it could be a tad misleading as to what happened. Galileo didn't really ...

McKinley Museum planetarium director Suzie Dills says her trip to the Galileo museum in Italy was educational, and a thrill.

THERE are few men of science whose lives offer so much of picturesqueness and interest to the popular mind as that of Galileo. Marvelous genius though he was, he lived and did his great works among ...

Bains Elementary School fifth graders role-played a trial between Galileo and the church to their class at Bains Elementary. Camille Burns and Sarah Fudge’s class was split, and each side came up with ...

A manuscript attributed to Galileo Galilei found to be a forgery in August has led to the discovery that a different, controversial book was authored by the celebrated Italian astronomer. When you ...

Some of the world’s greatest artists and thinkers have turned to each other for guidance and inspiration: Salvador Dalí and Sigmund Freud, Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, Paul Cézanne and ...

The "clock" was crafted from a geocentric perspective, which was done to pay tribute to the reigning theory heralded by the church during Galileo's time, Stalder said. "The Earth is in the center, ...