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 ...

Challenging the status quo often invites skepticism. Think of pioneers like Copernicus and Vibhishan, who were scorned for ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...