Small format, serious subject matter. This portrait magnet brings one of history's most consequential scientific minds into your everyday spaces — a daily reminder that the people who shaped civilization are worth remembering.
This Galileo magnet features a bold, graphic portrait, part of the Architects of Reason collection. A distinctive gift for science lovers, astronomy enthusiasts, and educators. Available in three sizes.
ABOUT GALILEO GALILEI (1564–1642)
Galileo didn't invent the telescope. He heard about it, built a better one, and pointed it at the sky - and what he saw there dismantled a thousand years of received wisdom about the cosmos.
The moons of Jupiter circling their parent planet were proof that not everything in the universe revolved around the Earth. The phases of Venus confirmed that it orbited the Sun. The surface of the Moon was not the perfect crystalline sphere of Aristotelian cosmology but a rugged landscape of mountains and craters. He published his findings in 1610 in Sidereus Nuncius - The Starry Messenger - and the scientific world has never been the same.
His work on motion was equally revolutionary. Through careful experiment he established that falling objects accelerate at a constant rate regardless of their weight, directly contradicting Aristotle's physics. His investigations into projectile motion and inertia laid the groundwork that Newton would later formalize into the laws of classical mechanics.
The Inquisition convicted him of heresy in 1633 for defending the Copernican model of the solar system. He was forced to recant and spent the rest of his life under house arrest, continuing to write and think until his eyesight failed completely. He died in 1642 - the same year Newton was born. The continuity was not coincidental.
PRODUCT FEATURES
- Available in three sizes: 3×3, 4×4, and 6×6 inches
- Matte finish for a sophisticated, glare-free surface
- Laminated surface for durability and color vibrancy
- White vinyl with strong magnetic backing
- Indoor use recommended