Galileo
Galileo was born on February 15, 1564 in Pisa, Italy. He was an Italian philosopher, astronomer, physicist and mathematician who made fundamental contributions to the sciences of motion, astronomy, and strength of materials and to the development of the scientific method and he was the first to use a refracting telescope to make important astronomical discoveries. In 1570 his family relocated to Florence.
He studied at the University of Pisa in 1581. T...
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