But this popular image neglects one important facet of his Renaissance personality: Galileo the artist. Art and science have always been intertwined, and Galileo exemplified how they can inspire ...

But did you know that the painter Artemisia Gentileschi was pen pals with the astronomer Galileo Galilei? The pair wrote back and forth, and in one famous letter in 1635, the artist asked the ...

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In the first book of his epic poem Paradise Lost, John Milton mentions a “Tuscan Artist” who views the moon’s orb through optic glass. He is referring, somewhat perplexingly, to Galileo Galilei, the ...

For more than 80 years, a manuscript drafted by Galileo Galilei was considered “one of the great treasures” of the University of Michigan’s library. That is, until recently, when an expert ...