Examples of Galileo in the following topics:
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- Although none of the Medici themselves were scientists, the family is well known to have been the patrons of the famous Galileo Galilei, who tutored multiple generations of Medici children, and was an important figurehead for his patron's quest for power.
- Galileo's patronage was eventually abandoned by Ferdinando II, when the Inquisition accused Galileo of heresy.
- Galileo named the four largest moons of Jupiter after four Medici children he tutored, although the names Galileo used are not the names currently used.
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- Galileo Galilei came after Kepler and developed his own telescope with enough magnification to allow him to study Venus and discover that it has phases like a moon.
- Galileo was one of the first modern thinkers to clearly state that the laws of nature are mathematical.
- Galileo showed a remarkably modern appreciation for the proper relationship between mathematics, theoretical physics, and experimental physics.
- In 1610, Galileo published this book describing his observations of the sky with a new invention - the telescope.
- Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) improved the telescope, with which he made several important astronomical discoveries, including the four largest moons of Jupiter, the phases of Venus, and the rings of Saturn, and made detailed observations of sunspots.
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- Following Copernicus and Tycho, Johannes Kepler and Galileo Galilei, both working in the first decades of the 17th century, influentially defended, expanded and modified the heliocentric theory.
- Galileo Galilei was an Italian scientist who is sometimes referred to as the “father of modern observational astronomy.”
- Using this new instrument, Galileo made a number of astronomical observations which he published in the Sidereus Nuncius in 1610.
- While observing Jupiter over the course of several days, Galileo noticed four stars close to Jupiter whose positions were changing in a way that would be impossible if they were fixed stars.
- In 1610, Galileo also observed that Venus had a full set of phases, similar to the phases of the moon we can observe from Earth.
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- These ideas established a tradition that carried forward to Padua and Galileo Galilei in the 17th century.
- They also demonstrated this theorem—the essence of "The Law of Falling Bodies"—long before Galileo, who has gotten the credit for this.
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- The discoveries of Johannes Kepler and Galileo gave the theory credibility and the work culminated in Isaac Newton's Principia, which formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation that dominated scientists' view of the physical universe for the next three centuries.