Evidence suggests ancient civilizations, including the Greeks, may have had early optical knowledge and devices like ...

the Renaissance polymath who bridged art and science; Isaac Newton, the physicist behind the laws of motion; Galileo Galilei, the astronomer who championed the heliocentric model; Napoleon ...

Venerated in his lifetime, Saint Francis did not have to wait long for a monument to be erected in his honor. A basilica in ...

Michael Berkeley, the presenter, chuckled. Perhaps Galileo got the idea from the Renaissance man Cardinal Baronius, and I rather think St Augustine of Hippo said something similar in the 4th ...

The House of Medici was an Italian banking family that rose to become one of the most powerful political families … Continue ...

Researchers gave psilocybin to two dozen religious clergy. Was it guided by science, religion, or some awkward combination?

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The Tesla, Trump & Twitter guy is way too functional, too mercenary, too glib, too lacking in humanity and any kind of self-awareness, and too morally compromised to be any kind of philosopher king.

Aryabhata correctly concluded, a full thousand years before Copernicus and Galileo, that the earth ... the commercial revolution that financed the Renaissance and in time, as these ideas spread ...

Ghaili’s creative lens, figures such as Nefertiti, the Egyptian queen celebrated for her beauty and influence; Socrates, the father of Western philosophy; Titus, the Roman emperor who led during the ...

Nearby is the 318-foot Campanile di San Marco bell tower, which was once frequented by Galileo to study the ... houses classical paintings from the Renaissance, including pieces by Bellini and ...