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Vincenzo or Vincenzio Gamba (1606–1649), later Vincenzo Galilei (1619), was the illegitimate son of Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) and his mistress Marina Gamba (1570–1612). Vincenzo was legitimated to his father in 1619. Like his grandfather Vincenzo Galilei, the younger Vincenzo became a lutenist.
Galileo helped repair its windows and made sure its clock was in order. [6] [7] In 1633, the Inquisition tried Galileo for heresy. He was forced to recant his views on heliocentrism, and was sentenced to house arrest for life. Shortly after Galileo returned to Arcetri in disgrace, Maria Celeste contracted dysentery and died on 2 April 1634 ...
During one of his frequent trips to Venice, Galileo met a young woman named Marina, daughter of Andrea Gamba, and started a relationship with her. She moved into his house in Padua and bore him three children: Virginia (16 August 1600 – 1634), later Sister Maria Celeste ; Livia (1601–1659), later Sister Arcangela; and Vincenzo (1606–1649).
Galileo was born in Pisa (then part of the Duchy of Florence) on 15 February 1564, [16] the first of six children of Vincenzo Galilei, a leading lutenist, composer, and music theorist, and Giulia Ammannati, the daughter of a prominent merchant, who had married two years earlier in 1562, when he was 42, and she was 24.
Sometime before 1562 he moved to Pisa, where on 5 July he married Giulia Ammannati of a noble family. Galileo Galilei was the oldest of six or seven children; another son, Michelagnolo, born in 1575, [4] became an accomplished lutenist and composer. Galilei was a skilled player of the lute who
Giulia Ammannati was born in 1538 in the small village of Villa Basilica. [1] [better source needed] Her father, Cosimo, was a wood merchant of Pescia, who moved to Pisa before 1536. [2] Among the ancestors of the Ammannati family was the secretary of Pope Pius II, Iacopo Ammanati. [3]
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Sagredo added a scale to Galileo's thermoscope to enable the quantitative measurement of temperature, [14] and produced more convenient portable thermometers. [15] Sagredo also discussed with Galileo the possibility of a telescope using a mirror (a reflecting telescope). [16] In June 1619, Galileo and Sagredo exchanged portraits. [17]