Galileo Galilei was the founder of modern physics ... The one in which Galileo was born was an autocracy, the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, with its capital at Florence and the second city at Pisa ...

Among the first to bear out this prophecy was Sir Isaac Newton, born within a year of Galileo's death, who codified mathematical laws of motion and universal gravitation. Posterity agrees that ...

It's long been known that Hawking's birthday, January 8, 1942, fell on the 300th anniversary of the death of another great science mind, Galileo Galilei ... Albert Einstein, born March 14 ...