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- 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)
How To Use Galileo Galilei In A Sentence
- The first astronomer to study the surface of Mars was Galileo Galilei, who noted the phases of the planet in 1610.
- Ironically, Galileo Galilei spotted Neptune more than 200 years earlier but wrongly assumed the planet was just a star.
- Or, at least, our perception of it did, thanks to Galileo Galilei's scrutiny of the night sky with a telescope.
- It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment. Galileo Galilei
- Long experience has taught me this about the status of mankind with regard to matters requiring thought: the less people know and understand about them, the more positively they attempt to argue concerning them, while on the other hand to know and understand a multitude of things renders men cautious in passing judgement upon anything new. Galileo Galilei
- Italian mathematician and astronomer Galileo Galilei used the first optical telescope, a refractor, in 1610.
- In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. Galileo Galilei
- It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment. Galileo Galilei
- You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it in himself. Galileo Galilei
- 1642- astronomer Galileo Galilei died in Italy.
