Most of us meet mathematics as a school subject, a pile of sums and rules to survive before the bell rings. Galileo Galilei ...
Mount Holyoke professor Peterson reviews Galileo's life and works while discussing his contemporaries and predecessors, classical Greek and Roman views, and the interplay between mathematics and the ...
On February 15, 1564, a baby boy named Galileo Galilei was born in the city of Pisa. 452 years later, he remains one of the most important figures in the development of modern astronomy. Even after ...