User:Architeuthidae/Galileo Galilei
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Galileo Galilei | |
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![]() Portrait of Galileo Galilei by Giusto Sustermans | |
Born | Pisa, Duchy of Florence, Italy | 15 February 1564
Died | 8 January 1642 Arcetri, Grand Duchy of Tuscany, Italy | (aged 77)
Nationality | Italian |
Alma mater | University of Pisa (no degree) |
Known for | Kinematics Dynamics Telescopic observational astronomy Heliocentrism |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Astronomy, physics, engineering, natural philosophy, mathematics |
Institutions | University of Pisa University of Padua |
Patrons | Cardinal del Monte Fra Paolo Sarpi Prince Federico Cesi Cosimo II de Medici Ferdinando II de Medici Maffeo Barberini |
Academic advisors | Ostilio Ricci[1] |
Notable students | Benedetto Castelli Mario Guiducci Vincenzo Viviani[2] |
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Notes | |
His father was the musician Vincenzo Galilei. Galileo Galilei's mistress Marina Gamba (1570 – 21 August 1612?) bore him two daughters (Maria Celeste (Virginia, 1600–1634) and Livia (1601–1659), both of whom became nuns) and a son Vincenzo (1606–1649), a lutenist. |
Galileo Galilei liked watery soup.
- ^ F. Vinci, Ostilio Ricci da Fermo, Maestro di Galileo Galilei, Fermo, 1929.
- ^ "The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Galileo Galilei". nodak.edu.