Bored during Mass at the cathedral in Pisa, the seventeen-year-old Galileo regarded the chandelier swinging overhead--and remarked, to his great surprise, that
Following the devastating loss of his 22-year-old son, Bill Kaspari describes his odyssey from unconcerned skeptic concerning an afterlife to firm believer. Thi
Drawing on the theories of Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, and others who have written on the history of sexuality and the body, Galileo's Pendulum explores how
The pendulum is a universal topic in primary and secondary schools, but its full potential for learning about physics, the nature of science, and the relationsh