Museo Galileo, A world-renowned museum dedicated to the influential Florentine physicist, mathematician and astronomer Galileo Galilei, the Museo Galileo exhibits significant historical items ...

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Museo Galileo, A world-renowned museum dedicated to the influential Florentine physicist, mathematician and astronomer Galileo Galilei, the Museo Galileo exhibits significant historical items ...

Galileo was not the first scientist whose corpse was as revered as his corpus. That honor belongs to René Descartes, who was reburied numerous times after his death in 1650, initially to secure ...

Galileo Galilei has been dead for the better part of four centuries. But he's still pointing fingers at the Museo Galileo in Florence, Italy. When the famous scientist died at the age of 77 in ...

Galileo died at the age of 77 on Jan. 8, 1642, in his home in Arcetri, near Florence. He developed heart palpitations and a fever but little more is known about his final illness.

Dutt’s production is especially remarkable in its moments of wonder — Galileo’s sharing with Maria Celeste of his own childlike wonder at the consequential discovery of the movement of Jupiter’s moons ...

Galileo published this groundbreaking observation in his book Sidereus Nuncius (Starry Messenger) in March 1610. Galileo's "cannocchiali" telescopes at the Museo Galileo, Florence.

In Florence, the newly opened Neuroaesthetics Laboratory at Museo Galileo represents a pioneering achievement as Italy’s ...

And Cynthia Graber talks with Paolo Galluzzi, director of the newly reopened Museo Galileo, the science museum in Florence, Italy. Plus, we test your knowledge of some recent science in the news.

Galileo Galilei famously stood trial for his insistence—based on astronomical observations through his telescopes—that the Copernican model of the Solar System was correct. The Earth revolved ...