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  2. Galileo Galilei - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Villa Il Gioiello - Wikipedia

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    Villa il Gioiello ("The Jewel") is a villa in Florence, central Italy, famous for being one of the residences of Galileo Galilei, which he lived in from 1631 until his death in 1642. It is also known as Villa Galileo (not to be confused with the other homes of Galileo found in Florence, which are in Costa San Giorgio, as well as a villa in ...

  4. Arcetri - Wikipedia

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    A number of historic buildings are situated there, including the house of the scientist Galileo Galilei (called Villa Il Gioiello), [1] the Convent of San Matteo and the Torre del Gallo. The Arcetri Observatory is also located there. The church of San Leonardo in Arcetri is the main church of the area. Galileo Galilei died there on 8 January 1642.

  5. 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 ...

  6. Historical mysteries solved by science in 2024

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    Brahe and Kepler, along with Sir Isaac Newton and Galileo Galilei, were giants who replaced the medieval view of the world with a modern one, said Kaare Lund Rasmussen, lead author of the Brahe ...

  7. Maria Celeste - Wikipedia

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    After Galileo's death, 124 letters from Maria Celeste written between 1623 and 1633 were discovered among his papers. Galileo's responses have been lost. Maria Celeste's letters have been published: (in Italian) Virginia Galilei, Lettere al padre on Wikisource [9] (in English) Galilei, Maria Celeste, and Sobel, Dava.

  8. Accademia dei Lincei - Wikipedia

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    Galileo Galilei was the intellectual centre of the academy and adopted "Galileo Galilei Linceo" as his signature. "The Lincei did not long survive the death in 1630 of Cesi, its founder and patron", [1] and "disappeared in 1651." [2] During the nineteenth century, it was revived, first in the Papal States and later in the nation of Italy.

  9. Science and the Catholic Church - Wikipedia

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    On 31 October 1992, Pope John Paul II expressed regret for how the Galileo affair was handled, and issued a declaration acknowledging the errors committed by the Church tribunal that judged the scientific positions of Galileo Galilei; this was the result of a study conducted by the Pontifical Council for Culture.