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1. www.britannica.com › biography › Galileo-GalileiGalileo | Biography, Discoveries, Inventions, & Facts ...

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   Apr 29, 2024 · Galileo was born in Pisa, Tuscany, on February 15, 1564, the oldest son of Vincenzo Galilei, a musician who made important contributions to the theory and practice of music and who may have performed some experiments with Galileo in 1588–89 on the relationship between pitch and the tension of strings. The family moved to Florence in the early ...

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   Jul 23, 2010 · Learn about Galileo Galilei's contributions to physics, astronomy and philosophy, and his inventions of improved telescopes and microscopes. Find out how he challenged the Church's view of the universe and faced trial and house arrest.

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   Jun 28, 2015 · Learn about the scientific inventions of Galileo Galilei, one of the greatest astronomers of all time. He created a telescope, a pump, a pendulum clock, a sector, a thermometer and other devices that revolutionized various fields of science.

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   Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642), commonly referred to as Galileo Galilei (/ ˌ ɡ æ l ɪ ˈ l eɪ oʊ ˌ ɡ æ l ɪ ˈ l eɪ / GAL-il-AY-oh GAL-il-AY, US also / ˌ ɡ æ l ɪ ˈ l iː oʊ-/ GAL-il-EE-oh -⁠, Italian: [ɡaliˈlɛːo ɡaliˈlɛːi]) or simply Galileo, was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a ...

   • Academic advisors: Ostilio Ricci da Fermo

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   Apr 3, 2014 · Learn about Galileo's life, inventions and discoveries that challenged the Aristotelian view of the world and supported the Copernican theory. Find out how he made the telescope, observed the moon, Venus, Jupiter and sunspots, and wrote influential books.

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   Who is Galileo Galilei?

   • Galileo Galilei: Father of modern science. The Rosen Publishing Group. ISBN 978-1-4042-0314-3. Hoskin, M., ed. (1999). The Cambridge concise history of astronomy Cambridge University Press. Hawking, S. (1988). A Brief History of Time. New York: Bantam Books. ISBN 978-0-553-34614-5. Heilbron, J. L. (2005).

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   Did Galileo invent a telescope?

   • While Galileo did not invent the telescope, he greatly improved upon them. Over the course of many months during 1609, he unveiled multiple telescope designs that would collectively come to be known as Galilean Telescopes.

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   Did Galileo invent a compass?

   • Galileo even invented a pair of binoculars, but the idea did not catch on. Other gadgets Galileo invented early versions of include the thermometer (actually a thermoscope), a hydrostatic balance, and a compass (what we today would call a military compass or sector). It was the telescope, though, which revolutionised thought in the 17th century.

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   What was Galileo's first scientific instrument?

   • Galileo's early works describing scientific instruments include the 1586 tract entitled The Little Balance ( La Billancetta) describing an accurate balance to weigh objects in air or water and the 1606 printed manual Le Operazioni del Compasso Geometrico et Militare on the operation of a geometrical and military compass.

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   Sep 5, 2023 · Definition. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) was an Italian mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and natural philosopher. He created a superior telescope with which he made new observations of the night sky, notably that the surface of the Moon has mountains, that Jupiter has four satellite moons, and that the sunspots of the Sun, under careful ...

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   Apr 23, 2018 · Learn how Galileo Galilei, the \"father of modern science,\" made major contributions to math, physics and astronomy during the Scientific Revolution. Discover his inventions, such as the sector and the telescope, and his discoveries, such as the heliocentric model of the solar system.