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Galileo Galilei demonstrated the telescope to Senate dignitaries (St. Mark's Basilica - 1609)
View on map:45.434790°N 12.339873°E
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He used the telescope to see incoming ships before anyone else knew they were arriving.
Description
Galileo Galilei
Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei
(15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642) was an Italian
astronomer
,
physicist
and
engineer
, sometimes described as a
polymath
. Commonly referred to as
Galileo
, his name was pronounced
/
ˌ
ɡ
æ
l
ɪ
ˈ
l
eɪ
.
oʊ
ˌ
ɡ
æ
l
ɪ
ˈ
l
eɪ
.
i
ˌ
/
(
GAL
-ih-
LAY
-oh
GAL
-ih-
LAY
-ee
,
Italian:
[ɡaliˈlɛːo ɡaliˈlɛi]
). He was born in the city of
Pisa
, then part of the
Duchy of Florence
.
[4]
Galileo has been called the "father" of
observational astronomy
,
[5]
modern physics,
[6]
[7]
the
scientific method
,
[8]
and
modern science
.
[9]
References
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo Galilei
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