history of science

June 22, 2020
On this day (22 June) in 1633, Galileo Galilei was Forced to Recant Heliocentrism Theory.

April 22, 2016
Architect-engineer Giovanni Branca was born on 22 April 1571 in Lizzola, near Pesaro.

February 17, 2016
In a strange twist of fate, the painter Giordano Bruno Lattuada died in Monza on 17 February 1978, the same day that his namesake was burned at the stake by the Catholic Inquisition in Rome’s Campo de’ Fiori in 1600.