A Galilean is a person from Galilee, a region of northern Israel and southern Lebanon

Galilean may also refer to:

• Related to Galilee
  • Jesus, who was raised in Galilee
  • Galilean dialect, the form of Jewish Palestinian Aramaic spoken by people in Galilee during the late Second Temple period
  • Galilean faith, ancient name for Christianity
• Related to Galileo Galilei, early modern Italian natural philosopher
  • Galilean moons, the four largest moons of Jupiter, discovered by Galileo
  • Galilean telescope, early refracting telescope design used by Galileo
    • Galilean binoculars, designed on the same principle as the Galilean telescope
  • Galilean cannon, a device that demonstrates conservation of linear momentum
  • Galilean thermometer, a sealed glass cylinder containing a clear liquid and several glass vessels of varying density
  • Galilean invariance, states that the laws of motion are the same in all inertial frames
    • Galilean transformation, used to transform between the coordinates of two reference frames which differ only by constant relative motion
    • Galilean equivalence principle, universality of free fall
    • Galilean electromagnetism, a formal electromagnetic field theory that is consistent with Galilean invariance

See also

• Emperor and Galilean, a play by Henrik Ibsen
• Jose the Galilean, a Jewish sage who lived in the 1st and 2nd centuries CE
• Judas the Galilean, a Jewish leader who led resistance to the census imposed for Roman tax purposes by Quirinius in Judea Province around 6 CE
• Against the Galileans, essay by the Roman emperor Julian the Apostate
• Galilee (disambiguation)
• Galileo (disambiguation)
• All pages with titles containing Galilean