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  2. Galileo Galilei - Wikipedia

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    Galileo was born in Pisa (then part of the Duchy of Florence) on 15 February 1564, [20] 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.

  3. Zeus - Wikipedia

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    Zeus (/ zj uː s /, Ancient Greek: Ζεύς) [a] is the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion and mythology, who rules as king of the gods on Mount Olympus.. Zeus is the child of Cronus and Rhea, the youngest of his siblings to be born, though sometimes reckoned the eldest as the others required disgorging from Cronus's stomach.

  4. Galilei - Wikipedia

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    Galilei is a surname, and may refer to: Galileo Galilei (1564–1642), astronomer, philosopher, and physicist. Vincenzo Galilei (1520–1591), composer, lutenist, and music theorist; father of Galileo

  5. Giulia Ammannati - Wikipedia

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    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]

  6. File:Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642 RMG BHC2699.tiff - Wikipedia

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    English: Galileo Galilei, 1564-1642 A bust-length portrait of Galileo, in his early 40s, dressed in black and turned slightly to the left but looking directly at the viewer. He has closely cropped hair, with a full beard, and the top left corner of the neutral background bears an inscription, not necessarily by the artist, 'GALLILEUS ...

  7. History of astronomy - Wikipedia

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    Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) crafted his own telescope and discovered that the Moon had craters, that Jupiter had moons, that the Sun had spots, and that Venus had phases like the Moon. Portrait by Justus Sustermans. Galileo Galilei was among the first to use a telescope to observe the sky, and after constructing a 20x refractor telescope. [84]

  8. Maria Celeste - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  9. Galileo affair - Wikipedia

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    The Galileo affair (Italian: il processo a Galileo Galilei) began around 1610, [1] and culminated with the trial and condemnation of Galileo Galilei by the Roman Catholic Inquisition in 1633. Galileo was prosecuted for holding as true the doctrine of heliocentrism , the astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun at ...