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3 days ago · This award-wining site offers valuable information on the life and work of the Italian scientist Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), as well as on the scientific community of 17th-century Europe.
18 hours ago · "Chapter 1: Galileo's Early Life: The Birth of a Rebel" delves into the early life and influences that shaped Galileo Galilei into one of the most pivotal fi...
5 days ago · Galileo proposed that the four Jovian moons he discovered in 1610 be named the Medicean stars, in honour of his patron, Cosimo II de’ Medici, but they soon came to be known as the Galilean satellites in honour of their discoverer.
2 days ago · This presentation of the Codex 72 of the Galilean Collection, focusing on Galileo’s own notes on motion, is a gem. The manuscript offers drafts of theorems on motion, proofs, and three letters written to Galileo.
5 days ago · Since Galileo Galilei (1564–1642), physicists have adopted mathematics as their lingua franca, and since Isaac Newton (1642–1727), additionally, following the advice of William of Ockham (1285–1347) that “plurality should not be posited without necessity” (famously known as “Ockham’s razor”), the axiomatic system to describe Nature.
18 hours ago · In physics, the special theory of relativity, or special relativity for short, is a scientific theory of the relationship between space and time. In Albert Einstein 's 1905 treatment, the theory is presented as being based on just two postulates: [p 1] [1] [2] The laws of physics are invariant (identical) in all inertial frames of reference ...
4 days ago · Renaissance Empiricism and Observations of the Moon. At the beginning of the 14th century in the Italian university town of Padua—the center for nascent astronomical studies where Galileo Galilei would eventually hold a chair—Giotto di Bondone included the Moon in an unusual manner in the private oratory chapel of Enrico Scrovegni.
