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Biography Of Galileo
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Galileo was born near Pisa, on February 15, 1564. His father,
Vincenzo Galilei, played an important role in the musical revolution from
medieval polyphony to harmonic modulation. Galileo was taught by monks at
Vallombrosa and then entered the University of Pisa in 1581 to study
medicine. He soon tu ....
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....shed these findings in March 1610 in
The Starry Messenger. His new fame gained him appointment as court
mathematician at Florence. He was thereby freed from teaching duties and
had time for research and writing. By December 1610 he had observed the
phases of Venus, which contradicted Ptolemaic astronomy and confirmed his
preference for the Copernican system.
The professors of philosophy scorned Galileo's discoveries because
Aristotle had held that only perfectly spherical bodies could ex.... |
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