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"In questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual."
"See now the power of truth; the same experiment which at first glance seemed to show one thing, when more carefully examined, assures us of the contrary."

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~Galileo went completely blind in 1638 and was suffering from a painful hernia and insomnia.
~He never married, but had children with Marina Gambia, who he met on a trip to Venice, Italy.
~His 2 daughters joined the Convent of San Matteo in Arcetri, Italy, and stayed there.
~Galileo was a devout Catholic until death.
~Galileo studied pendulum but never accomplished building a pendulum clock.

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~Taken to jail and was under house arrest for life after saying that the Earth went around the Sun, and that not everything went around the Earth, also known as the Copernican System.
~Galileo wanted to and enrolled into a medical degree at the University of Pisa, but didn't finish it, choosing to study mathematics.
~He didn't believe in Kepler's theory that the Moon caused tides. He thought that the Earth's rotation was responsible.

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Galileo was an astronomer,  mathematician, engineer, philosopher, and physicist. He played a major role in the scientific field during the scientific revolution of the 17th Century.

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Galileo had 5 siblings, Michelagnolo, Benedetto, Giula, Livia, and Virginia Galilei. Their parents were Giuliadico di Cosimo Ammanati and Vincenzo Galilei.

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Galileo was born on February 15, 1564, in Pisa, Italy. He died January 8, 1642, in Arcetri, a location in Florence, Italy.