In basketball, legends are often known by first name alone: LeBron, Kobe, Michael. Same with entertainers: Madonna, Cher, Beyoncé. But lists of scientific legends almost always include surnames, never ...

Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei provided a number of scientific insights that laid the foundation for future scientists. His investigation of the laws of motion and improvements on the telescope ...

Galileo Galilei was the founder of modern physics. To assess such a claim requires that we make a giant leap of the imagination to transport us to a state of ignorance about even the most elementary ...

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 around ...

“FATHER of modern physics – indeed, of modern science altogether.” That is Albert Einstein’s verdict on Galileo Galilei. But you won’t find this quote in John Heilbron’s scholarly biography. Instead, ...

Galileo Galilei, “martyr of science” in the picturesque 19th-­century expression, has undoubtedly attracted more biographers than Copernicus, Kepler, Newton and Einstein combined. His run-in with the ...