It’s easy to take a digital, binary view of the 17th century Church vs. Galileo conflict: Galileo right, Pope Urban VIII wrong. But the issue is more nuanced, and Galileo’s interaction with church ...

Isaac Newton refined a model of the universe where the sun was at its center and the planets, including Earth, revolved around it. Newton defined some of the primary and fundamental basis of what we ...

Although it gets far more media attention in the United States, the conflict between Darwinism and Creationism is not as important in the history of opposition between religion and science as that ...

Did Galileo Galilei really say all those terrible things that the Vatican said he did in his famous 1613 letter about a sun-centered solar system — and in saying so, violate church doctrine? Or did ...

Galileo Galilei's 1633 trial by the Inquisition for his support of heliocentrism is a historically prominent case often framed as a conflict between science and religion, leading to his lifelong house ...

This year marks the International Year of Astronomy, 12 months that commemorate the 400th anniversary of the first recorded astronomical observations with a telescope by Galileo Galilei, and the ...

“Galileo guffawed,” writes James Reston Jr. in this muscular new biography, and such is Reston’s command that you can hear the snort. And see the snorter, this unruly Renaissance genius, lusty, ...