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  2. And yet it moves - Wikipedia

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    Attributed to Galileo Galilei " And yet it moves " or " Although it does move " ( Italian : E pur si muove or Eppur si muove [epˈpur si ˈmwɔːve] ) is a phrase attributed to the Italian mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) in 1633 after being forced to recant his claims that the Earth moves around the Sun ...

  3. Galileo Galilei - Wikipedia

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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 /, US also / ˌ ɡ æ l ɪ ˈ l iː oʊ-/; Italian: [ɡaliˈlɛːo ɡaliˈlɛːi]) or mononymously as Galileo, was an Italian [a] astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath.

  4. Galileo affair - Wikipedia

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    The Galileo affair (Italian: il processo a Galileo Galilei) began around 1610, [1] and culminated with the trial and condemnation of Galileo Galilei by the Roman Catholic Inquisition in 1633. Galileo was prosecuted for holding as true the doctrine of heliocentrism , the astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun at ...

  5. Jaden Smith compares himself to Galileo, plus 5 more crazy ...

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    Jaden Smith doesn't care if people think he's 'crazy.' In fact, he tells GQ magazine that he embraces the criticism. Jaden Smith compares himself to Galileo, plus 5 more crazy quotes from his 'GQ ...

  6. Openclipart - Wikipedia

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    Openclipart, also called Open Clip Art Library, is an online media repository of free-content vector clip art.The project hosts over 160,000 free graphics and has billed itself as "the largest community of artists making the best free original clipart for you to use for absolutely any reason".

  7. File:Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642 RMG BHC2699.tiff - Wikipedia

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    A bust-length portrait of Galileo, in his early 40s, dressed in black and turned slightly to the left but looking directly at the viewer. He has closely cropped hair, with a full beard, and the top left corner of the neutral background bears an inscription, not necessarily by the artist, 'GALLILEUS / GALLILEUS / MATHUS:' (i.e.'mathematicus').

  8. Letters on Sunspots - Wikipedia

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    In 1632 Galileo published Dialogo sopra i due Massimi Sistemi del Mondo (Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems), a fictitious four day-long discussion about natural philosophy between the characters Salviati (who argued for Copernican ideas and was effectively a mouthpiece of Galileo), Sagredo, who represented the interested but less ...

  9. Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems - Wikipedia

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    He is named after Galileo's friend Filippo Salviati (1582–1614). Sagredo is an intelligent layman who is initially neutral. He is named after Galileo's friend Giovanni Francesco Sagredo (1571–1620). Simplicio, a dedicated follower of Ptolemy and Aristotle, presents the traditional views and the arguments against the Copernican position.