Galileo

Examples

• So Galileo did, and as a result the senate elected him to the Professorship at Padua for life, with a salary of one thousand florins yearly. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Galileo soon thereafter greatly improved and increased its capacity, and was the first to direct it towards the heavens. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Thus Galileo invented the telescope, and Newton discovered the law of gravitation. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Then followed the famous observation of the swinging lamp by the then young Galileo, about 1582, while lounging in the cathedral of Pisa. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• As a result of this experiment Galileo declared three laws in relation to falling bodies. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Galileo determined to study the laws of mechanics by experiment, and not, as so many earlier scientists had done, by argument or mere theoretical opinions. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The news reached Galileo while on a visit to Venice in June, 1609. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Galileo, although he was ill, went to Rome, and was placed on trial before the Inquisition. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• But Galileo’s course was no less flecked with light and shade than were the sun and moon he studied. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• In 1639 Galileo, then old and blind, dictated to his son one of his books in which he discussed the isochronal properties of oscillating bodies, and their adaptation as time measures. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• This conjecture is the more probable, since Galileo, like Harvey and Gilbert, had been trained in the s tudy of medicine. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• There he stayed until the Grand Duke Cosimo, who had stood by him, persuaded the Church that Galileo’s health required that he be allowed to join his friends. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Galileo made many great discoveries and inventions; there was hardly a field of science that he did not enter and explore; but his greatest work was to open a new world to men’s attention. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• But, to his father’s dismay, the young Galileo did not show great interest in the study of medicine. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• But the mind of the young Galileo was already remarkably acute. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.

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