Leonardo da Vinci pioneered the study of human anatomy and Galileo Galilei rocked the Catholic establishment by announcing that the Earth revolved around the Sun. In politics… Liberated from the ...

Galileo was part of the Renaissance, the centuries-long ferment accelerated and intensified by the invention of printing in the middle of the 15th century. He was not alone. More or less ...

Far from feeling constrained by what the Bible says, the Middle Ages speculated boldly on whether God could have created an eternal cosmos ...

In Florence, the Galileo museum and Maria Novella ... set the scene with a presentation on the birth of the Florentine Renaissance. Afterwards, we shall dine together at one of our favourite ...