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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.
Mersenne was born of Jeanne Moulière, wife of Julien Mersenne, peasants who lived near Oizé, County of Maine (present-day Sarthe, France). [5] He was educated at Le Mans and at the Jesuit College of La Flèche. On 17 July 1611, he joined the Minim Friars and, after studying theology and Hebrew in Paris, was ordained a priest in 1613.
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.
After Galileo's death, 124 letters from Maria Celeste written between 1623 and 1633 were discovered among his papers. Galileo's responses have been lost. Maria Celeste's letters have been published: (in Italian) Virginia Galilei, Lettere al padre on Wikisource [9] (in English) Galilei, Maria Celeste, and Sobel, Dava.
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]
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 ...
Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love is a book by Dava Sobel published in 1999. [1] It is based on the surviving letters of Galileo Galilei's daughter, the nun Suor Maria Celeste, and explores the relationship between Galileo and his daughter. It was nominated for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or ...
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])