Pisa International Airport Pisa International Airport Pisa International Airport () , also named Galileo Galilei Airport is an airport located in Pisa, Italy. It is the main airport in Tuscany and the 10th in Italy in terms of passengers. It is named after Galileo Galilei, the famous scientist and native of Pisa. The airport was first developed for the military in the 1930s and 1940s. The airport was used by 5,233,118 passengers in 2017. It serves as a focus city of Ryanair. The airport had its own railway station with a service to and from Pisa Central railway station but this was closed
Galileo Galilei references such as Psalm , , and 1 Chronicles which include text stating that "the world is firmly established, it cannot be moved." In the same manner, says, "the Lord set the earth on its foundations; it can never be moved." Further, Ecclesiastes states that "And the sun rises and sets and returns to its place." Galileo defended heliocentrism based on his astronomical observations of 1609 ("Sidereus Nuncius" 1610). In December 1613, the Grand Duchess Christina of Florence confronted one of Galileo's friends and followers, Benedetto Castelli, with biblical objections to the motion of the earth. According to Maurice Finocchiaro,