The Galileo Test draws its name from Galileo's ability to generate revolutionary ideas, such as his heliocentric theory, which changed humanity's perception of the cosmos. The theory states that ...

At a time when the dominant theory suggested that the Earth was at the centre of everything, Galileo’s discovery provided strong evidence for the Copernican theory that suggested that most ...

Well, any of us who has ever looked through a telescope could say the same, for the two principal types in use today were developed by giants: the refractor by Galileo and the reflector by Newton.

A young Galileo is perched atop the Leaning Tower of Pisa. He is in the middle of his famous experiment—the one in which he shows, by dropping cannonballs of different weights, that all objects ...

GALILEO: Good morning ... Now force is the push and pull on an object and I'm not so sure that Aristotle's theory around force is correct and people have believed it for well over 1500 years.

There, Cardinal Bellarmine after some talk persuaded Galileo to agree not to teach the Copernican theory as truth. In fact nobody knows exactly what Galileo did promise at this meeting in 1616 ...

This is exactly what Galileo had concluded hundreds of years before: all objects released together fall at the same rate regardless of mass. The result was predicted by well-established theory ...

Galileo made himself one of the world's first telescopes and discovered the moons of Jupiter. He supported Copernicus' theory that the Earth revolved around the Sun. This brought him in conflict ...