"We cannot understand that great book, the Universe, if we do not first learn the language in which it is written…” the brilliant Italian Renaissance scientist Galileo Galilei taught us. “The book is ...

Nothing was different about the moon rising over Padua, Italy, that evening in the fall of 1609 except the impression it made on 45-year-old Galileo Galilei. Having impressed navy commanders by ...

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In Bertolt Brecht’s The Life of Galileo, the ongoing conflict between rationalism and religious authority is portrayed through Galileo Galilei’s epic battle with the might of the Vatican. The play ...