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Gailileo
Title: Gailileo
Category: Society & Culture / People
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Gailileo
Born: Feb 15 1564 in Pisa (now Italy)
Died: Jan 8 1642 in Areetri
Gaileo Galilei's father, Vincenzo Galilei (1520-1591), who described himself as a
nobleman of Florence, was a professional musician. He carried out experiments on strings
to support his musical theories. Galileo studied medicine at the university of Pisa, but his
real interests were always in mathematics and natural philosophy. He is chiefly
remembered for his work on free fall, his use of the telescope and his employment …showed first 75 words of 702 total…
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write up his studies on motion and the strength of his evidence. The book Discourses on
two new sciences, was smuggled out of Italy and published in Leiden in the Netherlands
in 1638.
Galileo wrote most of his later works in vernacular, probably to distance himself
from the conventional learning of university teachers. However, his books were
translated into Latin for the international market, and they proved to be immensely
influential.
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