print email comment close The Galileo Project URL: http://galileo.rice.edu/ Description: This site looks at the life and works of Galileo Galilei, mathematician, astronomer, and physicist. Features a biography, including patrons, theories, and inventions; timelines; portraits of Galileo and other scientists; brief biographies of his contemporaries; figures in the Catholic Church that played a role in the Inquisition; a glossary, bibliography, maps, lesson plans, and related links. Searchable. From Rice University, Houston, Texas. Publisher: Rice University Extra Keywords heresies hydrostatic balance telescope pendulum medici notablemathematicians notablephysicists Library of Congress Subject Headings: Astronomers Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642 Mathematicians People Physicists LII Database Information: Record 12790 created by Carole Leita on 09/24/1999 Last modification on 10/02/2004 Published: 09/24/1999   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/12790