NARRATOR: It was a time of discord in the Christian world. Threatened by the Protestant Reformation, the Roman Catholic Church demanded strict adherence to its dogma, enforced by the violent threat of ...

As a founding father in the fields of physics and astronomy, Galileo Galilei is known for countless contributions to science. The Italian thinker stressed a methodical, mathematical approach to ...

Clinical Senior Lecturer at Deakin University School of Medicine & Pain Specialist, Barwon Health My reading and looking around did get me thinking though. I came up with a few reasons why the average ...

The classic image of Galileo Galilei has the 16th century Italian scientist dropping two balls of differing weights from the Leaning Tower of Pisa and observing them hitting the ground at the same ...

Two new biographies differ over the astronomer’s view of the relationship between science and faith. A right thumb, a finger, a tooth. These were the contents of a reliquary acquired several years ago ...

Without a doubt Galileo Galilei changed our world and the view of how our world fit into the cosmic scheme. Galileo wasn’t the first person to suggest Earth and the rest of the planets circled the sun ...