"Philosophy is written in this grand book the universe," Galileo said. "But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and to read the alphabet in which it is ...

Galileo Galilei was the founder of modern physics ... of the sort familiar to everyone today who has seen an elementary book on optics. It astonished and delighted everyone, and when he succeeded ...

In Jessica Dickey's play "Searching for Galileo's Daughter," an American writer goes to Florence in Italy to study the ...