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Galileo Galilei - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Galileo Galilei was a Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution. His achievements include improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations, and support for Copernicanism.
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Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) ... Galileo Galilei was an Italian scientist who formulated the basic law of falling bodies, which he verified by careful measurements. He constructed a telescope with which he studied lunar craters, and discovered four moons revolving around Jupiter and espoused the Copernican cause.
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Biography of Galileo Galilei (BB^Y-1642) ... Galileo Galilei's parents were Vincenzo Galilei and Guilia Ammannati. Vincenzo, who was born in Florence in 1520, was a teacher of music and a fine lute player. After studying music in Venice he carried out experiments on strings to support his musical theories.
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The Galileo Project is a source of information on the life and work of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). Our aim is to provide hypertextual information about Galileo and the science of his time to viewers of all ages and levels of expertise.
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The early life of Galileo Galilei. ... Galileo Galilei - Rerouted from Religon to Science ... Galileo Galilei - Law of the Pendulum...
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Lucidcafé's Profile of Galileo Galilei ... Galileo Galilei was born on February 15, 1564 in Pisa, Italy. Galileo pioneered "experimental scientific method" and was the first to use a refracting telescope to make important astronomical discoveries. In 1609 Galileo learned of the invention of the telescope in Holland.
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Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) has always played a key role in any history of science and, in many histories of philosophy, he is a, if not the, central figure of the scientific revolution of the 17th century.
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VON GEBLER, Galileo Galilei und die romische Curie (tr., London, 1879); GRISAR, Galilei-studien (Ratisbon, 1882); CHOUPIN, Valeur des Decisions Doctrinales et Disciplinaires (Paris, 1907); DE JAUGEY, Le proces de Galilee, etc.
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Explore the companion site to the NOVA program on the 17th century scientist Galileo and his struggle to persuade church authorities of the truth behind his astonishing discoveries about the cosmos. ... Falling Objects; See how Galileo proved that light objects fall just as fast as heavy ones.
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