Galileo Galilei

Galileo's parents were Vicenzo Galilei and Gulia Vincenzo. Galileo was born on February 15, 1564 in Pisa, which is now Italy. In 1572 when Galileo was eight his family returned to Florence while he stayed in Pisa to live with Muzio for 2 years. At the age of ten he left to join his family. There he was tortured by Jacapo Borghinti. Once he was old enough he was sent to the Camoldelese Montary at vollombrosa. He became a novice later, his father wasn't pleased, and father had decided he would be medical doctor. He returned back home giving up the idea, but continued his schooling. In 1581 he was sent back to Muzio by father to attend University of Pisa to enroll for medical degree. In 1582-83 Ostillo Ricci, a mathematician of the Tuscan Court and a formal pupil of Tartagua, taught a course on Euclid's Elements at the University of Pisa which Galileo attended? In 1585 he quit the coarse and began teaching mathematics, but first privately. In 1586 he started......

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