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noun - Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars
GALILEO - Galileo Galilei (Italian: [alilo alili]; 15 February 1564 8 January 1642) was an Italian polymath. Galileo is a central figure in the transition fro...
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| Born in Pisa in the 16th century, he studied the laws of falling bodies & the motions of projectiles |
| In 1610 this Italian discovered that Venus has phases like the moon |
| He discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter in 1610 |
| In 1633 this astronomer was found guilty of "vehement suspicion of heresy" |
| In August 1609 he demonstrated his newly constructed telescope to the senate of Venice, who then doubled his salary |
| In 1610, while serving as court mathematician for the Grand Duke of Tuscany, he first observed the rings of Saturn |
| Langdon finds clues in a work by this Italian called a heretic due to his pro-Copernican views |
| (Sofia of the Clue Crew hangs out with a probe replica at the Jet Propulsion Lab.) In 1995 on Jupiter, this craft, named for a scientist, made the first direct measurements of a giant planet's atmosphere |
| To honor his work, this man's daughter took the name Maria Celeste when she became a nun in 1616 |
| In 1589 he became a professor of mathematics at the U. of Pisa; in 1592 he moved on the U. of Padua |
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| The CGS unit of acceleration, equal to 1 centimetre per second per second. Symbol: Gal |
| Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars demonstrated that different weights descend at the same rate perfected the refracting telescope that enabled him to make many discoveries (1564-1642) |
| An American space probe to Jupiter, launched in 1989. It reached the vicinity of Jupiter in 1995 and released a probe which descended into Jupiter's atmosphere. |
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| Galileo Galilei (Italian: [alilo alili]; 15 February 1564 8 January 1642) was an Italian polymath. * Galileo is a central figure in the transition from natural philosophy to modern science and in the transformation of the scientific Renaissance into a scientific revolution. * Galileo's championing of heliocentrism and Copernicanism was controversial during his lifetime, when most subscribed to either geocentrism or the Tychonic system. He met with opposition from astronomers, who doubted heliocentrism because of the absence of an observed stellar parallax. The matter was investigated by the Roman Inquisition in 1615, which concluded that heliocentrism was "foolish and absurd in philosophy, and formally heretical since it explicitly contradicts in many places the sense of Holy Scripture." Galileo later defended his views in Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1632), which appeared to attack Pope Urban VIII and thus alienated him and the Jesuits, who had both supported Galileo |