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Galileo was born in Pisa (then part of the Duchy of Florence) on 15 February 1564, [16] the first of six children of Vincenzo Galilei, a leading lutenist, composer, and music theorist, and Giulia Ammannati, the daughter of a prominent merchant, who had married two years earlier in 1562, when he was 42, and she was 24.
Galileo thermometer: invented by Galileo Galilei in 1593. Toffoli gate: a universal reversible logic gate invented by Tommaso Toffoli. Public toilets: latrines were part of the sanitation system of ancient Rome, placed near or as part of public baths .
Pages in category "Inventions by Galileo Galilei" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. G.
The Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations Relating to Two New Sciences (Italian: Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche intorno a due nuove scienze pronounced [diˈskorsi e ddimostratˈtsjoːni mateˈmaːtike inˈtorno a dˈduːe ˈnwɔːve ʃˈʃɛntse]) published in 1638 was Galileo Galilei's final book and a scientific testament covering much of his work in physics over the preceding ...
The Assayer (Italian: Il saggiatore) is a book by Galileo Galilei, published in Rome in October 1623. It is generally considered to be one of the pioneering works of the scientific method, first broaching the idea that the book of nature is to be read with mathematical tools rather than those of scholastic philosophy, as generally held at the time.
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Galileo's ship refers to two physics experiments, a thought experiment and an actual experiment, by Galileo Galilei, the 16th- and 17th-century physicist and astronomer. The experiments were created to argue the idea of a rotating Earth as opposed to a stationary Earth around which rotated the Sun , planets, and stars.
1610 – Galileo Galilei: discovered the Galilean moons of Jupiter; 1613 – Galileo Galilei: Inertia; 1621 – Willebrord Snellius: Snell's law; 1632 – Galileo Galilei: The Galilean principle (the laws of motion are the same in all inertial frames) 1660 – Blaise Pascal: Pascal's law; 1660 – Robert Hooke: Hooke's law; 1662 – Robert ...