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  2. 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 a Florentine astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath.

  3. Galileo's Leaning Tower of Pisa experiment - Wikipedia

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    Galileo's thought experiment concerned the outcome (c) of attaching a small stone (a) to a larger one (b) Galileo set out his ideas about falling bodies, and about projectiles in general, in his book Two New Sciences (1638). The two sciences were the science of motion, which became the foundation-stone of physics, and the science of materials ...

  4. Galileo's escapement - Wikipedia

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    Galileo was one of the leading minds of the Scientific Revolution. [1] He was dubbed the founder of theoretical physics. [2] He is also credited with the invention of the celatone (a type of telescope) and the geometric and military compass. [3] Galileo's escapement was the earliest design of a pendulum clock.

  5. History of the telescope - Wikipedia

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    Notes on Hans Lippershey's unsuccessful telescope patent in 1608. The first record of a telescope comes from the Netherlands in 1608. It is in a patent filed by Middelburg spectacle-maker Hans Lippershey with the States General of the Netherlands on 2 October 1608 for his instrument "for seeing things far away as if they were nearby." [12] A few weeks later another Dutch instrument-maker ...

  6. Category:Inventions by Galileo Galilei - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Inventions by Galileo Galilei" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. G.

  7. Timeline of microscope technology - Wikipedia

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    c.1622: Drebbel presents his invention in Rome. 1624: Galileo improves on a compound microscope he sees in Rome and presents his occhiolino to Prince Federico Cesi, founder of the Accademia dei Lincei (in English, The Linceans). 1625: Francesco Stelluti and Federico Cesi publish Apiarium, the first account of observations using a compound ...

  8. Exploration of Io - Wikipedia

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    The discovery was made possible by the invention of the telescope in the Netherlands a little more than a year earlier and by Galileo's innovations to improve the magnification of the new instrument. [7] During his observation of Jupiter on the evening of January 7, Galileo spotted two stars to the east of Jupiter and another one to the west. [8]

  9. Celatone - Wikipedia

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    Using of celatone. Celatone by Matthew Dockrey. Museum at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, UK. The celatone was a device invented by Galileo Galilei to observe Jupiter's moons with the purpose of finding longitude on Earth.