Galileo and Sports examines the role of fitness, anatomy, and the physics of sport from Galileo’s world to today.

For the past 3 consecutive years, the OU Athletic Department has contributed funding for an acquisition for the OU Libraries’ Galileo collection: in 2014, the major book by Galileo’s father, a prominent music theorist; in 2013, a beautiful work on perspective drawing by Lorenzo Sirigatti, which Galileo studied; and in 2012, a handwritten manuscript of lectures by the leading astronomer in Rome during Galileo’s telescopic discoveries, never before published and new to scholars.