Galileo Galilei
Title: Galileo Galilei
Category: /Science & Technology/Computers and Cybernetics
Details: Words: 1084 | Pages: 4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Galileo Galilei
Category: /Science & Technology/Computers and Cybernetics
Details: Words: 1084 | Pages: 4 (approximately 235 words/page)
Galileo Galilei was born at Pisa on the 18th of February in 1564. His father,
Vincenzo Galilei, belonged to a noble family and had gained some distinction as a
musician and a mathematician. At an early age, Galileo manifested his ability to learn
both mathematical and mechanical types of things, but his parents, wishing to turn him
aside from studies which promised no substantial return, steered him toward some sort of
medical profession. But this had
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Sentenced to house arrest
1. lived in luxury
2. never in a prison cell
C. Writings Prohibited
D. Died in 1642
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