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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, [15] 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. History of physics - Wikipedia

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    Galileo Galilei, early proponent of the modern scientific worldview and method (1564–1642) 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.

  4. List of Italian inventions and discoveries - Wikipedia

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    Galileo Hydrostatic Weighing Scale: a weight measuring device that uses hydraulic counter-force of a liquid, usually water or oil, to determine weight of an object under Archimedes' principle. Nowadays is mainly used in hydraulic types of weighbridges. Its functioning principles were first described by Galileo Galilei in 1586.

  5. Timeline of fundamental physics discoveries - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. The Assayer - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Category:Inventions by Galileo Galilei - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Kamala delivers new baffling word salad involving ...

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    Still others mocked Harris, who chairs the National Space Council, as President Biden’s “space czar” and “Galileo Harris,” after the 17th century astronomer Galileo Galilei.

  9. Two New Sciences - Wikipedia

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    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 ...