In August, we reported that a letter presumably written by Galileo Galilei—part of the collection of the University of Michigan's library—was actually a forgery, along with a similar document in the ...

Since 1938, one of the most prized items in the University of Michigan library’s collection has been a rare manuscript page allegedly written by Galileo. But after an internal investigation, the ...

Galileo Galilei was the founder of modern physics. To assess such a claim requires that we make a giant leap of the imagination to transport us to a state of ignorance about even the most elementary ...