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-Galileo Galilei-
~All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them~
Interesting Facts and Quotes
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Galileo never married but had all his children out of wedlock
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In the last year of his life, he was totally blind, but still designed an escapement mechanism
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Also a year before his death he came up with a pendulum design, which was used for keeping time
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The middle finger of Galileo’s right hand has been exhibited at the Museo Galileo in Florence, Italy
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Among Galileo’s inventions were telescopes, the compass, and the thermometer
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The Catholic Church did not like Galileo’s findings, they forbade him to write and teach his work, but he still did it anyway
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He was not only a fantastic inventor, scientist, and a scholar, but also a great musician
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Galileo was sent to a Jesuit monastery to study medicine. But after four years he announced he’d found his calling: to be a monk
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Galileo had three children, he made his two daughters to became nuns
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​​Galileo was sentenced to life in prison by the Roman Inquisition​
~In questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual~
-Galileo Galilei-
~Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so~
-Galileo Galilei-
