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Astronomer and physicist · 1564–1642 · Science
Turned an improved spyglass on the night sky, found moons around Jupiter, and spent his last years under house arrest for saying so.
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“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”
Galileo, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina
Galileo taught mathematics at Pisa and Padua, studied falling bodies and pendulums, and in 1609 built his own version of the newly invented telescope. Within months he had seen craters on the Moon, four satellites of Jupiter and the phases of Venus — evidence that not everything circles the Earth. Sidereus Nuncius made him famous. His 1632 Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems put the Church's preferred position in the mouth of a character named Simplicio, which did not help. The Inquisition tried him in 1633, forced an abjuration, and confined him to his villa at Arcetri, where he went blind and still finished his best book on motion.
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You can put that to the Galileo Galilei persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Galileo Galilei’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1564–1642, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Galileo Galilei persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Galileo Galilei’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1564–1642, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
You can put that to the Galileo Galilei persona directly. It answers in character, drawing on Galileo Galilei’s documented writings, recorded statements and the historical record of 1564–1642, and it will tell you when something is uncertain rather than filling the gap.
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