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| Galileo Galilei
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Galilei was born in Pisa in 1564. He taught mathematics at
the University of Padua and made reasearches and experiments
in mechanics. He invented the thermoscope, the microscope and
the telescope. The latter one allowed him to make his most spectacular
discovery: the discovery of the satellite Jupiter. He observed
Saturn and the phases of Venus. In the year 1611 he became member
of the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome and watched the sun-spot. |
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