Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Galileo, Kepler and Copernicus with planets and orbital diagrams. In this series, The Week looks at the ideas and innovations that ...

American writer Dan Brown released The Da Vinci Code in 2003. A mystery novel that tracks the secret surrounding the Holy Grail of Jesus through ciphers hidden in the works of Leonardo S.p.A., a ...

In November 1859, Charles Darwin published his seminal book on the Origin of Species. His studies caused a pivotal change in how we view ourselves just as Nicolaus Copernicus (1473 - 1543) and Galileo ...

Galileo was convicted of a strong suspicion of heresy. Although "was never formally charged with heresy" is technically true, it could be a tad misleading as to what happened. Galileo didn't really ...

Aside from his many contributions to the evolution of modern science, Galileo Galilei is also famous for defying the 17th century Catholic church. He's lionized for advocating a heliocentric view of ...

The classic image of Galileo Galilei has the 16th century Italian scientist dropping two balls of differing weights from the Leaning Tower of Pisa and observing them hitting the ground at the same ...

The heliocentric theory holds that Earth moves around the Sun at great speed, a controversial idea in Galileo's time. Even today, many people are still perplexed by the fact that we don't experience ...

When I first read the Aug. 16 Dispatch letter challenging my comparison of Galileo's coerced recantation of the Copernican solar theory with the current global warming debate, I wondered if it might ...