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Galileo

Galileo was an Italian scientist who was born in 2/18/1564. He was a Tuscan Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who was a big role in the scientific revolution. Galileo improved the telescope and Galileo has been called the "father of modern observational astronomy. His contributions to "observational astronomy" are the discovery of the four biggest satellites of Jupiter, which are called the Galilean moons.

Galileo was the first of six children of Vincenzo Galilei who was a famous lutenist and theorist. When Galileo was eight he and his family moved to Florence and was left with a man called Jacopo Borghini for about two years. He then went to school in the Camaldolese Monastery at a place called Vallombrosa which was thirty three kilometers south of Florence . For a while in school Galileo thought about becoming a priest for a long time, but later studied for a medical degree at a university called the University of Pisa because that is...

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