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Explore Galileo Galilei's life, discoveries, controversies and legacy in astronomy. ... A portrait of Italian physicist, mathematician and astronomer Galileo Galilei (1564-1642).
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A portrait of Galileo Galilei painted in 1636. Imagno/Getty Images. Before the forgery determination, the document was described by the university as “one of the great treasures of the ...
Portrait of Galileo Galilei, by Justus Sustermans. Public domain, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London, Caird Collection. Galileo Galilei is known as the father of observational astronomy. His ...
A portrait of Galileo Galilei, by Justus Sustermans (1597-1681), painted in 1636. On display at the Galleria Degli Uffizi in Florence, Italy. (Image credit: DEA PICTURE LIBRARY via Getty Images) ...
Galileo continued writing in conversational language for his landmark 1632 work, Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del ...
Galileo’s first instrument had a magnification of 3x, a plano-convex objective lens of 37mm (1.5 inches) in diameter, and a focal length of 980mm. He lost no time in popularizing the product.
For nearly a century, the library at the University of Michigan had proudly displayed the so-called "Galileo manuscript" — a document believed to be written by the famous astronomer Galileo Galilei.