Mario Livio is an astrophysicist and author of the May 2020 book, Galileo: and the Science Deniers.For 24 years he was an astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute, which operates the Hubble Space Telescope.
Four centuries ago, the Italian scientist Galileo Galilei put his liberty and life on the line to convince the religious establishment that the Copernican model of the solar system—in which the Earth and the other planets revolved around the sun—represented physical reality. ...read more