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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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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.

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 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.

Perhaps the most famous of Galileo’s scientific instruments was the telescope. This photo shows Galileo’s original 1609 invention. It was modelled after telescopes produced in other parts of ...

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 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 ...