Galilei, Galileo
Galilei, Galileo
1564-1642, Italian astronomer, mathematician, and physicist was born in Pisa, Italy. He started Pisa
University as a medical student in 1581, and became
professor of mathematics at Padua(1592-1610), where he
improved the refracting telescope (1610), and was the first person to use astronomy. At the age of 19 he found out the principle of isochronism-that each oscillation of a pendulum takes the same time despite the changes in amplitude. He found experimentally that bodies do …
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…with all the planets, including the earth, revolving around it.
Death of Galileo
Galileo died January 8, 1642 in Arcetri(near Florence)(now in Italy).
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**Bibliography**
Bibliography
I.Internet-http://userwww.sfsu.edu/rsauzier/Gallileo.html
II.Encyclopedia-
www.Encyclopedia.com
III.Pictures-
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IV.Book-
Galileo"First Observer of Marvellous Things" by Elma Ehrlich Levinger
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