Late in 1615, Galileo traveled to Rome to meet with church leaders personally; he was eager to present his discoveries and make the case for heliocentrism. But Baronius' view turned out to be the ...

Four hundred years ago this week, the Inquisition met in Rome to discuss Galileo’s support for the Copernican model of the cosmos, which placed the Sun at the center of the solar system.

Galileo saw the danger and hurried to Rome. 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 Galilei was born on February 15, 1564 in Pisa, Italy, to Vincenzo Galilei, a famous musician, and Giulia Ammannati, a housewife. The eldest of six children, he went to school in a ...

There is a date for the opening of the new Campus X student house in the former Inps headquarters on via Galileo Ferraris: ...