Galileo Galilei
Title: Galileo Galilei
Category: /Science & Technology
Details: Words: 934 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Galileo Galilei
Category: /Science & Technology
Details: Words: 934 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Galileo Galilei
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
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to use houses of friends as his places of confinement the, always comfortable and usually luxurious.
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