The drama of Galileo's trial by the Inquisition in 1633 has cast him as a renegade astronomer who scoffed at the Bible and drew fire from a Church blind to reason. Indeed, the myth of the martyred ...

Galileo pursued all his bold investigations convinced that Nature followed a Divine order. Just as the Bible represented the dictated word of God, so the natural world embodied God's work. The ...

Alison Abbott is a writer in Munich, Germany. Galileo and the Science Deniers Mario Livio Simon & Schuster (2020) Is there room in the crowded canon for a new biography of Galileo Galilei?

In early 2009, astronomers inaugurated the celebration of the International Year of Astronomy (IYA). The IYA vision is to ?help the citizens of the world rediscover their place in the Universe through ...