Called the father of modern experimental science, Galileo Galilei was a seventeenth-century Italian astronomer and physicist. He is known for discovering the law of pendulums, using a telescope to view the moons of Jupiter, supporting a Copernican view of
The comprehensive Galileo Project from Rice University is an excellent resource for school projects.
The Institute and Museum of the History of Science in Florence provides a rather quirky online exhibit that includes the middle finger of Galileo's right hand.
This PBS site is my Galileo pick of the day because it's got both style and substance.
NASA traces our exploration of the solar system back to Galileo's use of the telescope.
In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus published a revolutionary idea: the Sun is the center of the universe and the Earth revolves around the sun.
