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Jul 23, 2010 · Galileo Galilei was born in Pisa in 1564, the first of six children of Vincenzo Galilei, a musician and scholar. In 1581 he entered the University of Pisa at age 16 to study medicine, but was soon ...
Mar 4, 2005 · Galileo Galilei. Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) has always played a key role in any history of science, as well as many histories of philosophy. He is a—if not the —central figure of the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century. His work in physics (or “natural philosophy”), astronomy, and the methodology of science still evoke ...
Timeline Description: Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642) was a famed engineer, scientist, and astronomer who was fundamental in the scientific revolution during the Renaissance. He is most well known for improving the telescope, and his resulting observations that supported heliocentric astronomical theory - the concept that the sun was at the ...
Explore an illustrated timeline of Galileo's life and work from his birth in 1564 to his death in 1642, including his famous use of the telescope and his trial under the Inquisition.
Galileo (Galilei), (born Feb. 15, 1564, Pisa—died Jan. 8, 1642, Arcetri, near Florence), Italian mathematician, astronomer, and physicist. Son of a musician, he studied medicine before turning his attention to mathematics. His invention of the hydrostatic balance ( c. 1586) made him famous. In 1589 he published a treatise on the centre of ...
Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaulti de Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642) was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath, from Pisa.
Timeline Description: Galileo Galilei (1564 - 1642) was a famed engineer, scientist, and astronomer who was fundamental in the scientific revolution during the Renaissance. He is most well known for improving the telescope, and his resulting observations that supported heliocentric astronomical theory - the concept that the sun was at the ...
