Galileo Galilei

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Title: Galileo Galilei Category: Top 10+ Science Personalities Origin: Italy Listing added: Apr 5, 2009 Comments: 0 PageRank: 4/10

Galileo Galilei was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution. Among his achievements are improvement to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations, and support for Copernicanism. Galileo has been called the "father of modern observational astronomy", the "father of modern physics", the "father of science", and "the Father of Modern Science."
Among his contributions to observational astronomy are the telescopic confirmation of the phases of Venus, the discovery of the four largest satellites of Jupiter.
Galileo Galilei lived between 15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642.

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