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 ...

If you are a science geek the Galileo Museum of the History of Science in Florence, Italy, is a treasure house of wonder — even though it's almost everything a science museum should not be.

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 ...

We will talk to him about neutrinos, and we will hear about the reopening of the Institute and Museum of the History of Science in Florence, Italy—now known as the Museo Galileo. First up ...

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.

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

Galileo Galilei was born on February 15, 1564 in Pisa, Italy, to Vincenzo Galilei, a famous musician, and Giulia Ammannati, a housewife. The eldest of six children, he went to school in a ...

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 ...