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Title: Galileo Galilei


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Galileo Galilei
  • By Anais
  • Made 12/13/05

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His life
  • He was born in Pisa on Feb. 15,1564
  • Was son of Vincenzio Galilei
  • In 1583 he started to study math and the physical
    sciences
  • He was also a admirer of Archimedes works

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  • He had a job as a math physics teacher
  • He had a good reputation of teaching and that
    gained him a post at the university of Pisa
  • After that he changed jobs to the University of
    Padua

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  • He was at the University of Padua for 18 years

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  • In 1606 came the publication of The Operation of
    the Geometrical and Military Compass which
    reveals the experimentalist and craftsman in
    Galileo

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  • In 1613 he presented evidence for and openly
    defended the model of the solar system which
    Copernicus had proposed earlier

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His Inventions
  • Galileo invented a lot of things including
  • The pendulum
  • Thermometer
  • Telescope

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His inventions
  • Because of some of Galileos inventions are made
    better to help us discover more things
  • For example the telescope, we can compare this
    to this

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  • Source Citation  "Galileo." (Archive Photos,
    Inc.) The Blackbirch Encyclopedia of Science
    Invention. 4 vols. Blackbirch Press, 2001.  
    Reproduced in Kids InfoBits.  Detroit  Gale, 2005
    .   http//galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/KidsInfoB
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