After catching wind of Galileo’s beliefs, the cardinals of the Inquisition convened and decided to condemn Copernicus’ work in 1616. Galileo was ordered not to “actively promote Copernican ideas,” but ...

One of his most quoted lines captures his belief in lifelong learning: “I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.” For Galileo, every person had something to teach, ...

We got “Galileo hate mail” here at the Vatican’s astronomical observatory. It was funny — and not funny. It originated, and originates, in respectable places. And it speaks to the broader problem of ...

The university will present the recently restored 17th-century "Works of Galileo Galilei" on Thursday evening at the planetarium.

Even in the league of genius polymaths, Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei enjoys legendary status. He was the first to systematically study space with a telescope and his inventions include the ...

Galileo Galilei was an Italian astronomer, physicist, and engineer who lived in the 1500s and 1600s. A lot of people think of him as one of the most i.