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Galileo

Galileo

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 this had no effect on Galileo.  During his youth he was allowed to
follow the path that he wished to.

Although in the popular mind Galileo is remembered chiefly as an astronomer, 
however,  the science of mechanics and dynamics pretty much owe their existence to his
findings. Before he was twenty, observation of the oscillations of a swinging lamp in the
cathedral of Pisa led him to the discovery of the isochronism of the pendulum, which
theory he utilized fifty years later in the construction of an astronomical clock. In 1588, an
essay on the center of gravity in solids obtained for him the title of the Archimedes of his
time, and secured him a teaching spot in the University of Pisa. During the years 
immediately following, taking advantage

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