A biography of the 16th-century mathematician, physicist, and astronomer who dared to question the scientific theories set up by Aristotle and the Church.
As he unravels mysteries of the universe with his new telescope and challenges the scientific authorities in Italy in 1605, Galileo finds support from an unexpected source, the son of the powerful Medicis.
An animated exploration of sixteenth-century Italian astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei's life and accomplishments, including his discoveries about gravity and the moon and planets.
Heilbron takes in the landscape of culture, learning, religion, science, theology, and politics of late Renaissance Italy to produce a richer and more rounded view of Galileo, his scientific thinking, and the company he kept.
Chronicles the life of Galileo Galilei and his relationship with his eldest child Virginia, examining how she helped influence her father's work. Based on a series of surviving letters between father and daughter.
In seventeenth-century Europe, a group of Americans from the twentieth century form a political alliance with Sweden and try to form ties with Italy where a Venetian artist's attempts to save Galileo from his heresy trial could jeopardize everything.
Galileo was the extraordinary astronomer and inventor who re-discovered that the Earth travels around the sun, at the risk of his reputation and freedom. For refusing to support a false view of the Universe, he spent the last eight years of his life under house arrest.
