Science

Here you can find records of the other scientists and scientific institutions of Galileo's time, as well as information about Galileo's astronomical observations and instruments. Additionally, you can access a document from the University of Bologna's Astronomical Museum about 17th century astronomical instruments if you click here.

• Scientists
• Hans Lipperhey
• Santorio Santorio
• Tommaso Campanella
• Odo van Maelcote
• Johannes Fabricius
• Guillio Cesare Lagalla
• Marc Welser
• Benedetto Castelli
• Johannes Kepler
• William Gilbert
• Simon Marius
• Orazio Grassi
• Mario Guiducci
• Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc
• Tycho Brahe
• Vincenzo Viviani
• Thomas Harriot
• Christopher Clavius
• Ludivic delle Colombe
• Francesco Sizzi
• Christoph Scheiner
• Institutions
• Collegio Romano
• Lyncean Academy
• Instruments
• The pump
• The hydrostatic balance
• The pendulum
• The sector
• The thermometer
• The telescope
• The lodestone
• Observations, experiments, and discoveries
• The Moon
• Sunspots
• Galileo's Sunspot Drawings
• Satellites of Jupiter
• Saturn
• Tides
• Comets
• Longitude at Sea
• Phases of Venus
• Theories
• Ptolemaic System
• Copernican System
• Atomism
• On Motion