Handwriting analysis determined that the famed astronomer made notes in this copy of the ancient Greek text in the 1590s, decades before his own observations via telescope revolutionized our ...

For nearly a century, the library at the University of Michigan had proudly displayed the so-called "Galileo manuscript" — a document believed to be written by the famous astronomer Galileo Galilei.

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In August, we reported that a letter presumably written by Galileo Galilei—part of the collection of the University of Michigan's library—was actually a forgery, along with a similar document in the ...

Since 1938, one of the most prized items in the University of Michigan library’s collection has been a rare manuscript page allegedly written by Galileo. But after an internal investigation, the ...

Galileo Galilei was the founder of modern physics. To assess such a claim requires that we make a giant leap of the imagination to transport us to a state of ignorance about even the most elementary ...