Galileo precedes today’s physicists by many generations, but his work underscores the interplay of intellect and observation ...

The investigation of light and optical properties stretches back centuries, at least to the ancient Greeks, Egyptians, and Mesopotamians. In fact, even artificial lenses date back to as early as ...

DALLASIt's only when the big guns Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler came along that our understanding shifted to a heliocentric model with the sun at the centre of things and the Earth, and the other ...