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BOWLING GREEN, Ohio — Bowling Green State University held a public viewing Thursday of a recently-restored 17th-century collection of works from Galileo Galilei, the revolutionary scientist most ...

NEW YORK — In 1610, Galileo Galilei peered through his telescope and discovered four moons orbiting around ... crafted three exclusive timepieces to pay tribute to the scientist himself. Two of the ...

It is said that when a scientist enters the threshold of a science lab with his casual clothes he also puts off all his ...

Galileo Galilei's 1610 telescopic observations of Saturn initially revealed features interpreted as two appended moons or lobes. Subsequent observations in 1612 showed the disappearance of these ...