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Galileo

December 2023

  • Marlene Dietrich

    The Guardian view on marginalia: scribbles that can change the meaning of books

    Editorial: From Jane Austen’s austere lines to Marlene Dietrich’s outraged scrawl, the annotations of readers can increase the value of what what they read

November 2023

  • three satellites from the European Galileo navigation system network.

    Carol Rumens's poem of the week
    Poem of the week: Losing Galileo by Olga Dermott-Bond

  • John Heilbron, American historian of science. The Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts, Hay on Wye, Powys, Wales UK, June 01 2016<br>G562YD John Heilbron, American historian of science. The Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts, Hay on Wye, Powys, Wales UK, June 01 2016

    John Heilbron obituary

August 2022

  • Galileo Galilei and his Telescope - engraving 1864 (Photo by Stefano Bianchetti/Corbis via Getty Images)

    Treasured Galileo manuscript is a forgery, University of Michigan says

    Detective work by academic revealed supposed letter and notes by astronomer from 1610 were work of a 20th-century Italian forger

October 2019

  • Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

    Vatican's Secret Archives no longer officially secret after renaming

    Pope says new name for trove of priceless papers will be the Vatican Apostolic Archives

June 2019

  • Head of a European or Great White Pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus), 1635, by Vincenzo Leonardi, in the Barber Institute’s exhibition The Paper Museum: The Curious Eye of Cassiano dal Pozzo.

    The Paper Museum review – the pelican paintings that changed art forever

    Barber Institute, Birmingham
    From mammoth fossils to a civet’s anal glands, these drawings of the natural world prove how modern nature photography can be traced back to the pioneering work of Galileo

March 2019

  • 10-88 Moon, telescope from the series The Heavens by Barbara Bosworth

    My best shot
    Barbara Bosworth’s best photograph: midsummer moon over Boston

    ‘Light pollution is making it increasingly hard to find a really dark night sky that lets you see the stars. It’s a shame for humanity’

August 2017

  • Neptune fountain, Florence

    When Milton met Galileo: the collision of cultures that helped shape Paradise Lost

    A transformative visit to Catholic Florence inspired the Puritan poet to write his epic masterpiece, a BBC documentary reveals

January 2017

  • Director Joe Wright

    Pride and Prejudice director Joe Wright returns to London theatre

    Wright, whose films include Atonement and Anna Karenina, will take on Bertolt Brecht’s classic play Life of Galileo

May 2016

  • Cardinal Vincent Nichols carries a relic

    The enduring fascination of relics, from Becket’s elbow to Elvis’s Graceland

    Lindsey Fitzharris
    Holy items – such as the fragment of Becket’s bone returned to England – attract thousands. But ‘secular relics’ carry as much weight for the devotees of science and the arts

September 2015

  • Soyuz rocket carrying Galileo satellites.

    Spacewatch
    Look up to the skies … Galileo satellites help us navigate below

    Stuart Clark A complement to GPS, the European space service, free to the public, takes on new satellites launched in Guiana

February 2015

  • Aerial view of the Shard in London

    The material world
    How looking through glass made us view the world in a different light

    From Galileo’s discoveries to modern biology and the glasses we wear, we owe a debt to medieval European glassmakers

May 2014

  • Benedict Cumberbatch as theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking

    Scientists on screen - in pictures

    The private lives of the great inventors, discoverers and academics were often extraordinary. So it's not surprising that film-makers have been drawn to celebrate them and that actors have produced some terrific performances. Kit Buchan chooses the pick of the bunch over the years including Russell Crowe as John Nash and Walter Matthau as Einstein

January 2014

  • Einstein's theory of special relativity

    A short history of equations
    Why you can't travel at the speed of light

    A short history of Einstein's theory of relativity

October 2013

  • John F Kennedy

    Shortcuts
    The president's brain is missing and other mysteriously mislaid body parts

    President Kennedy isn't the only famous person to have lost a body part after death; Einstein, Beethoven and Galileo are among many others who rest in pieces

June 2013

  • Professor David Nutt

    Political science
    Professor David Nutt and science's Galileo complex

    Alice Bell: In the words of Bertolt Brecht, 'Welcome to the gutter, brother in science'

May 2013

  • Picture dated 1925 shows Professor Marie Curie working in the laboratory of Paris university. Marie Curie and her husband, the French physicist Pierre Curie were the discoverers of radium and won the Nobel prize for physics in 1903. Pierre Curie was born in Paris 15 May 1859 and his most important contributions to physics was the discovery that the magnetic properties of substances change at certain temperature, known as the "Curie point." AFP/Getty Images

    The 10 best ...
    The 10 best physicists

    From subatomic to cosmic, the pick of the pioneers

February 2013

  • Notes & Theories
    Renaissance brains: William Shakespeare and Galileo Galilei

  • Scanning the brains of an actor and an astronomer - video

    Scanning the brains of an actor and an astronomer – video

January 2013

  • Ian McDiarmid in the poster for A Life of Galileo

    Across the universe
    RSC's A Life of Galileo: pure inspiration

    Stuart Clark: A new adaptation of Brecht's Galileo opens in Stratford-upon-Avon on Thursday. It's impressive not only for the drama but for its demonstration of how to engage people in science

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