but rather his application of mathematics to the study of motion. Earlier philosophers, beginning with Aristotle, had concerned themselves with pinning down the causes of motion. Galileo dropped ...

While Galileo Galilei fancied himself a strong purveyor of both the scientific and theological, his moral core of truth at the center of his existence faced a brutal reckoning — one that ultimately ...

The lens and its ability to bend light is the central innovation in the study of astronomy ... developing a binocular form of ...

Vincenzio Galilei, his father, was also a musician, with original views, as well as being something of a mathematician. Galileo was to read medicine and so be able to earn a living. However ...

A young Galileo is perched atop the Leaning Tower of Pisa. He is in the middle of his famous experiment—the one in which he shows, by dropping cannonballs of different weights, that all objects ...

GALILEO: Good morning, guys, I hope you're having a lovely day. I am Galileo Galilei, a scientist from ... didn't carry out any experiments to back his theories, and you can probably tell by ...

UK firms have been integral to the development of Galileo UK ministers are setting aside £92m to study the feasibility of building a sovereign satellite-navigation system. The new network would ...