Ars Technica: Galileo is one of the most famous scientists in history, and there have been so many books published about his life and work. What led you to write your own take? Mario Livio ...

He has concluded in his two books, “The Galileo Affair: A Documentary History” and “Retrying ... his corpse and given pride of place in the Museo Galileo in Florence. One of the digits ...

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

The finger was removed by one Anton Francesco Gori on March 12, 1737, 95 years after Galileo’s death. Passed around for a couple hundred years, it finally came to rest in the Florence History of ...

Discoverer of moons, toppler of Aristotle's physics, and celebrated loser of history's most famous heresy trial, Galileo Galilei's greatest invention, in truth, was our own modern world.

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Galileo championed scientific inquiry and objective evidence, earning him a place in the annals of history.