BC: Romans under Lucius Aemilius Paullus defeat and capture Macedonian King Perseus, ending the Third Macedonian War. 1377: Richard II ...

We begin our walk at the Museo Galileo, where the most important Medicean collections of scientific instruments are preserved (for more on the great family, see our Florence Medici tour).The greatest ...

Galileo Galilei’s telescopic discovery of Jupiter ’s four moons in 1610 revolutionized astronomy and supported heliocentric theories. ... Expansion of Jupiter’s Satellite Family. In 1614, the German ...

Elon Musk recently proposed the ‘Galileo test’ to test whether artificial intelligence (AI) systems would be safer in the future or if they will hurt humanity. Will it work?

Galileo Galilei, the first person to study Saturn through a telescope, was the first to see this. It shocked him profoundly. When he initially turned his instrument on Saturn, in July 1610, he ...

TWO hundred and ninety-eight years ago to-day (November 5, 1581) Galileo Galilei, then a boy between seventeen and eighteen, matriculated as a medical student in the University of Pisa. At that ...

“Galileo’s Daughter” focuses on a playwright — known to us only as Writer (Carolyn Kinsolving) — who, buoyed by a grant, has come to Florence, Italy, to research the letters written over a ...

To secular scholars, Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was a martyr to religious bigotry, demonstrating how pious superstition can shackle human knowledge. To Protestant historians, ...