ANN ARBOR, MI - Nick Wilding couldn’t shake the feeling that something was off while researching documents for a new biography on Galileo Galilei ... 20th-century fake executed by well-known ...

Renowned astronomer Galileo Galilei has been lauded for centuries ... thousands of less-fortunate people around the world were executed for heresy over the centuries that the Inquisition existed.

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), aka Galileo, had this crazy idea that perhaps the earth was not at the center of the solar system or for that matter, the center of the universe. In his day ...

Yet in Galileo’s time, people were subject to the cruelest punishments for relatively petty crimes. London Bridge bristled with the heads of executed criminals, impaled on poles. Slavery was ...

The scientist was Galileo Galilei, and his question about cicada sounds played a key role in his dealings with the Catholic Church—especially in his attempts to win the good graces of the Pope.

On January 7, 1610 Galileo Galilei pointed a small twenty-power telescope at Jupiter. What he observed changed the way we understood the universe. Galileo noticed what appeared to be three small ...