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    Born
    15 February
    Pisa (now Italy)
    Died
    8 January
    Arcetri near Florence (now Italy)
    Summary
    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.

    Biography

    Galileo Galilei's parents were Vincenzo Galilei and Guilia Ammannati. Vincenzo, who was born in Florence in , 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. Guilia, who was born in Pescia, married Vincenzo in and they made their home in the countryside near Pisa. Galileo was their first child and spent his early years with his family in Pisa.

    In , when Galileo was eight years old, his family returned to Florence, his father's home town. However, Galileo remained in Pis

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    Galileo Galilei

    1. Brief Biography

    Galileo was born in Pisa on February 15, By the time he died on January 8, (but for problems with the date, see Machamer b, 24–25), he was as famous as any person in Europe. Moreover, when he was born there was no such thing as ‘science’; yet by the time he died, science was well on its way to becoming a discipline, and its concepts and method a complete philosophical system.

    Galileo’s father Vincenzo, though of noble heritage, was a semi-itinerant court musician and composer of modest means, who also authored treatises on music theory; his mother, Giulia Ammannati, descended from Pisan cloth merchants. In , they resettled the family in Florence. As a boy, Galileo was tutored privately and, for a time, by the monks at Vallombrosa, where he considered a religious vocation and may have started a novitiate. He returned home, however, and then enrolled for a medical grad at the University of Pisa in He never completed thi

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    Galileo Galilei

    Florentine physicist and astronomer (–)

    "Galileo" redirects here. For other uses, see Galileo (disambiguation) and Galileo Galilei (disambiguation).

    Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei (15 February &#;– 8 January ), commonly referred to as Galileo Galilei (, ; Italian:[ɡaliˈlɛːoɡaliˈlɛːi]) or mononymously as Galileo, was an Italian[a]astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath. He was born in the city of Pisa, then part of the hertigdöme of Florence.[8] Galileo has been called the father of observational astronomy,[9] modern-era classical physics,[10] the scientific method,[11] and modern science.[12]

    Galileo studied speed and velocity, gravity and free fall, the principle of relativity, inertia, projectile motion and also worked in applied science and technology, describing the properties of the pendulum and "hydrostatic balances". He was one of the earliest Ren