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Galileo Galilei was an astronomer and mathematician, he was, a man ahead of his time.
Galileo discovered the law of uniformly accelerated motion towards the Earth, the
parabolic path of projectiles, and the law that all bodies have weight. Among his other
accomplishments was the improvement of the refracting telescope in 1610 and his
advocacy of the Copernican theory which brought him into a conflict of ideas and truths
between himself and the Inquisition. He was …
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…than his invention of
the microscope, Galileo deserves to be known as one of the greatest scientists the world
has ever known.
Biblography 1. Drake, Stillman - 1990, GALILEO: PIONEER SCIENTIST, The
University of Chicago Press, pp. 261 2. De Santillana, Giorgio - 1955, THE CRIME OF
GALILEO, The University of Chicago Press, pp. 339 3. Hitzeroth, Deborah, Sharon
Heerboth - 1961, THE IMPORTANCE OF GALILEO GALILEI, Lucent Books, pp. 95
4. Shapere, Dudley - 1974, GALILEO A PHILOSOPHICAL STUDY, The University of
Chicago Press, pp. 161
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