Could Galileo have worked out the principles of the modern theory of relativity? Could he, even in the mid-seventeenth century, have derived the Lorentz transformations, the existence of a ...

Einstein’s central coup with general relativity was to combine that with a principle noted over three centuries earlier by Galileo: that falling objects accelerated at the same rate regardless ...

Einstein's special relativity, established in 1905, unified space and time into a four-dimensional continuum. It relies on two core principles: Galileo's relativity and the constancy of light's speed.

Albert Einstein’s special theory of relativity transformed our understanding of space-time by introducing a four-dimensional continuum. While it’s based on the principles of Galileo’s ...