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2 days ago · A comprehensive biography of Galileo Galilei, an Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer, and polymath who is considered the father of modern science. Learn about his life, achievements, controversies, and legacy in this article.
- Galileo Galilei (Disambiguation)
Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) was a scientist and...
- Vincenzo Gamba
Vincenzo or Vincenzio Gamba (1606–1649), later Vincenzo...
- Polymath
Benjamin Franklin is one of the foremost polymaths in...
- Girolamo Borro
Girolamo Borro (1512 – 26 August 1592) latinized as...
- Copernican Heliocentrism
Heliocentric model from Nicolaus Copernicus' De...
- Pisa
Pisa (/ ˈ p iː z ə / PEE-zə; Italian: ⓘ or [3]) is a city...
- Supernova of 1572
SN 1572 (Tycho's Supernova, Tycho's Nova), or B Cassiopeiae...
- Lutenist
A lute (/ lj uː t / [1] or / l uː t /) is any plucked string...
- Two New Sciences
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- Galileo Affair
The Galileo affair (Italian: il processo a Galileo Galilei)...
- Galileo Galilei (Disambiguation)
5 days ago · This award-wining site offers valuable information on the life and work of the Italian scientist Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), as well as on the scientific community of 17th-century Europe.
3 days ago · The Italian mathematician, astronomer, and physicist Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) was a supporter of Copernicanism who made numerous astronomical discoveries, carried out empirical experiments and improved the telescope.
3 days ago · In the 17th century AD, Galileo Galilei opposed the Roman Catholic Church by his strong support for heliocentrism. In 1610 Galileo Galilei observed with his telescope that Venus showed phases , despite remaining near the Sun in Earth's sky (first image).
2 days ago · Prior to the unjust decree against Galileo, Cardinal Bellarmine had written in 1615 that “if the orbiting of the Earth around the sun were ever to be demonstrated to be certain, then theologians ...
5 days ago · The law of inertia was first formulated by Galileo Galilei for horizontal motion on Earth and was later generalized by René Descartes. Although the principle of inertia is the starting point and the fundamental assumption of classical mechanics, it is less than intuitively obvious to the untrained eye.
4 days ago · The rings of Saturn were discovered by Italian astronomer and physicist Galileo Galilei more than 400 years ago in 1610. By comparison, the discovery of rings around Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune...
