'Science, Faith and Love' Dava Sobel's 1999 book " Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith and Love" shines a light on Maria Celeste based around her surviving 124 letters to her ...

TWO hundred and ninety-eight years ago to-day (November 5, 1581) Galileo Galilei, then a boy between seventeen and eighteen, matriculated as a medical student in the University of Pisa. At that ...

Galileo set to work and, by the end of the year, produced his own version with much greater magnification. Early in January 1610, Galileo made a number of discoveries, using the spyglass he ...

“His father Vincenzo Galilei was a musician and also quite a noted music theorist who published his own books on the mathematics of music,” says Hannam. During Galileo’s adolescence, the Galilei ...