In striving to make images he saw through his telescope ever larger, Galileo found that his field of view became ever smaller. He reached a point of diminishing returns beyond which enlarging the ...

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 ...

Everything seemed to be going well, and it must have looked as if the weight of Galileo and the rest of the scientific world might succeed and get a thorough revision of orthodox science.

The journey of astronomical telescopes began in the early 17th century when Galileo Galilei crafted his first refracting telescope in 1609. Although not the inventor of the telescope, Galileo was the ...

continuing to shape the way we view the universe. On this symbolic dayâ January 8â we remember two visionaries who refused to be defined by their circumstances. Galileo, who stared down ...

Galileo Galilei – often referred to just as ... the planet Jupiter presented itself to my view, and as I had prepared for myself a very excellent instrument, I noticed a circumstance which ...