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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 ...
Galileo was born in Pisa (then part of the Duchy of Florence) on 15 February 1564, [15] 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.
Marina Gamba of Venice (c. 1570 [1] – 21 August 1612 [citation needed]) was the mother of Galileo Galilei's illegitimate children. She was born around 1570 in Venice. She was born around 1570 in Venice.
Totally, there were eleven children in the Galilei family. [9] After the death of Vincenzo Galilei in 1591, the oldest son, Galileo, who already was a professor of mathematics in Pisa, took the burden of sustaining Ammannati and his siblings. [3] As Galileo moved to Padua Ammannati sent him letters in which she complained of her son's neglect. [4]
Mazzoleni had been working as an instrument maker at the Arsenale in Venice when, in 1597, Galileo hired him as his personal instrument maker. [2] In 1599, Mazzoleni, his wife, and his daughter moved into Galileo's home in Padua, where Galileo was teaching at the University of Padua. [1] (Mazzoleni's wife became Galileo's cook and housekeeper. [2])
The Astronomers Monument pays homage to six of the greatest astronomers of all time: Hipparchus (fl. 150 BC), Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543), Galileo Galilei (1564–1642), Johannes Kepler (1571–1630), Isaac Newton (1642–1727), and William Herschel (1738–1822).
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]
Capra had a dispute with Galileo Galilei (both of them learned fencing from Capra's father [4]) on the invention of the proportional compass and Marius took his student's side in the argument. [3] Marius left the school in July 1605, returning to Ansbach to become the mathematician and physician to the new Margraves, Christian and Joachim Ernst ...