The Galileo spacecraft used multiple 1802 microprocessors.

Since 2009, the teachers and researchers of the Center for European Legal Studies of Urbino, members of the Galileo Group , receive funding from the scientific cooperation initiative between France and Italy named Galileo.

The first telescopic observation of Mars was by Galileo Galilei in 1610.

Galileo, by the way, did this very cleverly by running a ball backwards down the strings of his lute.

And I start with Galileo who used the world's first telescope to look at the Moon.

In what language? Certainly not the language of mathematics, in which, Galileo rightly said, the book of nature is written.

In December 1610, Galileo Galilei used his telescope to observe that Venus showed all phases, just like the Moon.

And it was not until Galileo actually did it that an adult thought like a child, only 400 years ago.

Similarly, Galileo is now known to have committed what we now call research fraud in his famed physical experiments.

Pope John Paul II regretted the treatment which Galileo received, in a speech to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences in 1992.

The earliest published discovery of a moon other than the Earth's was by Galileo Galilei, who discovered the four Galilean moons orbiting Jupiter in 1610.

Well, I have to admit, actually, that I also had a very selfish reason for building Mathematica I wanted to use it myself, a bit like Galileo got to use his telescope 400 years ago.

Perhaps the key experiment in the history of modern science is Galileo's demonstration that falling objects must fall at the same rate regardless of their masses.

So seeing this picture is sort of like getting to be Galileo and looking at the stars and looking through the telescope for the first time, and suddenly you say, Wow, it's way more complicated than we thought it was.

Unaided human intuition schooled in Middle World finds it hard to believe Galileo when he tells us a heavy object and a light object, air friction aside, would hit the ground at the same instant.

It is the third largest moon in the Solar System and the second largest in the Jovian system, after Ganymede, and the largest object in the Solar System not to be properly differentiated.

The most massive of them, the four Galilean moons, were discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei and were the first objects found to orbit a body that was neither Earth nor the Sun.

The reviewer, Giovanni Camerota, wrote It does not seem to be either proper or useful for the books of our members to contain the ideas of Galileo Galilei, especially when they are contrary to Aristotle.

And here begins 400 years of frustration, of unfulfilled dreams the dreams of Galileo, Giordano Bruno, many others which never led to the answer of those very basic questions which humanity has asked all the time.

This year, the 400th anniversary of Galileo s first use of a telescope, has been declared the International Year of Astronomy, so this seems a good time to ponder Kant s first source of awe and reverence.

The first EU Galileo satellite intended as an alternative to America s GPS system was launched in late December with India as a full partner.

Great intellectuals like Abelard, Erasmus, Galileo, Voltaire, Zola, and Russell each challenged the pieties of his era, and we now regard their success as a good thing.

It's sort of like when Galileo invented or, didn't invent came to use a telescope and could see the heavens in a new way, or Leeuwenhoek became aware of the microscope or actually invented and could see biology in a new way.

Although the idea that the planets orbited the Sun had been suggested many times, it was not until the 17th century that this view was supported by evidence from the first telescopic astronomical observations, performed by Galileo Galilei.

Similarly, Galileo is now known to have committed what we now call research fraud in his famed physical experiments. Assuming he conducted them at all, they very probably did not produce the neat results that he used to assail his opponents.

2009 is the 400th anniversary of Galileo's first use of the telescope, Darwin's 200th birthday, the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species, the 50th anniversary of SETI as a science, the 25th anniversary of the incorporation of the SETI Institute as a non profit, and of course, the 25th anniversary of TED.