The Church believed Earth was the centre of the universe, but Galileo would eventually prove otherwise. Galileo soon developed the strongest telescope the world had ever seen, and would prove the ...

While Galileo Galilei fancied himself a strong purveyor of both the scientific and theological, his moral core of truth at the center of his existence faced a brutal reckoning — one that ultimately ...

Galileo provides an excellent illustration of ... to any real improvement in those constraints. (In the play, the Church opposes the new science because it would lead to social disorder, as ...

To Galileo, the moons proved that not everything in space circled the Earth, and therefore our planet was not the absolute center of the universe, as the Church maintained the Bible had it.

The drama of Galileo's trial by the Inquisition in 1633 has cast him as a renegade astronomer who scoffed at the Bible and drew fire from a Church blind to reason. Indeed, the myth of the martyred ...

A production that aims to shine a spotlight on Galileo Galilei's oldest daughter focuses too often on other characters.

Seventeenth-Century News "Most readers will read the last chapter of this outstanding biography on Galileo first. Laying out the contemporary Church's attempt to bring together the two cultures of ...

As the Writer explains at one point; “copied his work, campaigned on his behalf to the Church, even found his real estate” called “Il Jewel,” a modest home to which Galileo moved after his ordeal with ...