And there's a chain of creation reaching up to heaven. As a young man, Galileo toyed briefly with the idea of becoming a priest. Instead he entered the University of Pisa as a medical student in 1581.

One of the more curious legends in popular history of science is that Nicolaus Copernicus was a Catholic priest. And Galileo gets the blame for launching this little myth. But the founder of the ...

For example, Salusbury parrots rumors of the time that Galileo was an illegitimate child, and that his wife tore up many of his scientific papers at the request of a nefarious priest. Modern ...

The Galileo case has been taken as symbolic of ... In 1543 Copernicus, who was not a Catholic priest as is often maintained, encountered an ancient idea of a heliocentric universe.

Galileo Galilei famously stood trial for his insistence—based on astronomical observations through his telescopes—that the Copernican model of the Solar System was correct. The Earth revolved ...

A young Galileo is perched atop the Leaning Tower of Pisa. He is in the middle of his famous experiment—the one in which he shows, by dropping cannonballs of different weights, that all objects ...