BOWLING GREEN, Ohio — Bowling Green State University held a public viewing Thursday of a recently-restored 17th-century collection of works from Galileo Galilei, the revolutionary scientist most ...

Galileo Galilei is recognized as one of the most important scientists in history. He perfected the first telescopes and his discoveries revolutionized our understanding of the universe. However, he ...

"Lecture delivered to the Rochester N.Y. section of the American Optical Society, Nov. 2nd 1965, and to the joint sections of the Delaware Section of the Optical Society of America and the Rittenhouse ...

I have always been fascinated by the discoveries and theories of early astronomers, before technology. They used mathematics, physics and observations to gain an understanding of the cosmos. Without a ...

Hans Lippershey's ingenious spyglass -- Galileo's new window on the heavens -- Johannes Kepler, the nearsighted wizard -- Isaac Newton's reflecting telescope -- William Herschel's giant reflectors -- ...

Italian mathematician Galileo Galilei was born in Feb. 15, 1564, in Pisa. Often summarized as the father of modern science, certainly a polymath and a brilliant thinker who operated on a high ...