FEW figures have so struck the imagination of the world as the aged and infirm Galileo. Repressed by the power of the Inquisition, humbled into submission by the temporal power which crushed those ...

No audio available for this content. From a Galileo programme update presented at ION GNSS+ 2016. Spokespersons from the European Commission, the European Space Agency and the European GNSS Agency ...

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Appears in exhibition catalog as entry no. 23 (Sale info: For Sale). Synopsis of Mr. Sanguinetti's Collection of Ancient Italian Paintings, Engravings, and other Valuable Articles of Fine Arts, now ...

Like the engraving of the three astronomers, the portrait of Galileo has been altered in the Latin edition of his Dialogo. He faces in the opposite direction and his titles are given in Latin.

The left-hand portrait above is of Galileo Galilei, one of history’s most famous physicists. But the right-hand one? Its identity divides scholars. Some think it is also Galileo; others disagree.

Not every astronomer can claim to have enjoyed both the attention of the Inquisition and the Indigo Girls, but then again, Galileo was no ordinary genius. Discoverer of moons, toppler of Aristotle's ...

With his high-bandwidth imagination and mad research skills, Kim Stanley Robinson mastered the terraforming of the Red Planet in his Mars trilogy, and the re-creation of world history without ...