Galileo Galilei was the founder of modern physics ... mechanics and the strength of materials, optics and astronomy. He continued to develop, correcting earlier errors, admitting his ignorance ...

"Star Gazing" explores the life and contributions of Galileo Galilei, highlighting his groundbreaking discoveries in astronomy and the challenges he faced from the scientific community and the church.

In 1610, astronomer Galileo Galilei used the newly invented telescope to show that the Milky Way was composed of a huge number of faint stars. For the next 300 years, astronomers assumed that the ...

By the 17th century, famed engineer and astronomer Galileo Galilei refined Copernicus' heliocentric model using observations made with telescopes he built himself. However, it was not until Kepler ...