To understand Galileo, do what Galileo did, says Mark A. Peterson: Remain alert to insights from across the arts and sciences. In Galileo’s Muse: Renaissance Mathematics and the Arts (Harvard ...

Editor’s note: I got this from a reader tonight. I give up. We’re talking about a 15 year old spacecraft – one which was destroyed years ago – of which high resolution images are readily available – ...

Galileo's earliest surviving drawing of the moon can be dated to 30 November 1609, almost exactly 400 years ago. In the months before he made his observations, he'd become aware of an extraordinary ...

SUNNYVALE — Morgan Richardson looks like a recruit straight out of a punk-rock garage band. His slicked-up brown hair ends in swooping sideburns; on his chin sits a tuft of brown hair. Competing with ...

The 17th century "moon maps" by Harriot appear to reveal that the Englishman preceded the famous Italian scientist in viewing the moon through a telescope. One of Harriot's drawings is dated July 26 ...