THE numerous works which have appeared with Galileo for their theme may be divided into three classes. Firstly, those which relate mori particularly to his persecution by the Church, the position ...

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 ...

At the end of his trial, Galileo was made to swear that he did not believe in Earth’s motion. He was confined to house arrest and forbidden to write any more about the movement of the planet.