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  2. Galileo Academy of Science and Technology - Wikipedia

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    Galileo Academy is located in the historic north end of San Francisco, and was originally built in 1921. As of May 2015, Galileo has more than 150 faculty and staff members and serves more than 1,800 students. It is one of two Bay Area schools with an observatory. The observatory at Galileo is not in use at this time.

  3. Villa Il Gioiello - Wikipedia

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    Bust of Galileo. This rented residence with its fields, adjoined the monastery where his daughter, Sister Maria Celeste (born Virginia) was a nun. There are 124 remaining letters from Celeste to Galileo (the replies of the scientist were probably destroyed) which were filed after his death (at the State Archive of Florence) in the inventory of property owned by Galileo.

  4. Martin Horký - Wikipedia

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    Martin Horký (died 1670s) was a German-Bohemian astronomer, astrologer, pamphleteer, and traveler. He was notable for his early - and ultimately incorrect - criticism of Galileo Galilei's identification of the lunar mountains and Galilean moons of Jupiter.

  5. Giorgio Coresio - Wikipedia

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    This work was never published however as by 1613 when it was ready, Galileo's attention had been diverted to defending himself against many other hostile essays published by associates of delle Colombe. [7] [8] By 1614, signs of Coresio's mental health problems had become clear, and this may be another reason why Galileo never published his ...

  6. Galileo Galilei - Wikipedia

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    Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642), commonly referred to as Galileo Galilei (/ ˌ ɡ æ l ɪ ˈ l eɪ oʊ ˌ ɡ æ l ɪ ˈ l eɪ /, US also / ˌ ɡ æ l ɪ ˈ l iː oʊ-/; Italian: [ɡaliˈlɛːo ɡaliˈlɛːi]) or mononymously as Galileo, was an Italian [a] astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath.

  7. Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina - Wikipedia

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    Justus Sustermans – Portrait of Galileo Galilei, 1636 Galileo replied to Castelli with a long letter laying out his position on the relation between science and Scripture. By 1615, with the controversy over the Earth's motion becoming more widespread and increasingly dangerous, Galileo revised this letter and greatly expanded it; this became ...

  8. Universidad de Ciencias Médicas - Wikipedia

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    UCIMED also offers master's degrees and medical specialties such as a master's degree in Health Management and Specialty in Gynecology and Obstetrics. It is now part of the Europe’s largest higher education provider Galileo Global Education , along with the Regent's University London , the Paris School of Business , the European University ...

  9. Virginio Cesarini - Wikipedia

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    In 1619, the Jesuit Orazio Grassi, writing under the pseudonym Lotario Sassi, published Libra Astronomica ac Philosophica, which attacked Galileo. In May 1622, Cesarini wrote to Galileo asking him to publish a reply to Sarsi, which he owed to the world to write. In October of the same year, Galileo’s response, The Assayer, was ready. It was ...