IN looking through the “Dialoghi delle Nuove Scienze” of Galileo, I came unexpectedly on a passage * containing two remarkable discoveries in acoustics, which I should have confidently ...

Well, any of us who has ever looked through a telescope could say the same, for the two principal types in use today were developed by giants: the refractor by Galileo and the reflector by Newton.

Astrophysicist P. Ajith discusses universe expansion, combining Einstein's theory of relativity and quantum physics for ...

A young Galileo is perched atop the Leaning Tower of Pisa. He is in the middle of his famous experiment—the one in which he shows, by dropping cannonballs of different weights, that all objects ...

The Galileo Test draws its name from Galileo's ability to generate revolutionary ideas, such as his heliocentric theory, which changed humanity's perception of the cosmos. The theory states that ...

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 ...

Equipment: A Galileo's thermometer (a sealed liquid filled glass cylinder containing sealed glass floats labeled 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 24 and 26 degrees C), a 4 liter ...

Galileo Galilei was an Italian astronomer and scientist who, with his heliocentric theory in the 1600s, stated that the earth revolved around the sun. This was a revolutionary discovery ...