Galileo

(noun.) Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars; demonstrated that different weights descend at the same rate; perfected the refracting telescope that enabled him to make many discoveries (1564-1642).

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• 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. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Galileo soon thereafter greatly improved and increased its capacity, and was the first to direct it towards the heavens. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Thus Galileo invented the telescope, and Newton discovered the law of gravitation. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Then followed the famous observation of the swinging lamp by the then young Galileo, about 1582, while lounging in the cathedral of Pisa. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• As a result of this experiment Galileo declared three laws in relation to falling bodies. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• 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. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• The news reached Galileo while on a visit to Venice in June, 1609. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Galileo, although he was ill, went to Rome, and was placed on trial before the Inquisition. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• But Galileo’s course was no less flecked with light and shade than were the sun and moon he studied. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• 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. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• This conjecture is the more probable, since Galileo, like Harvey and Gilbert, had been trained in the s tudy of medicine. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• 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. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• 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. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• But, to his father’s dismay, the young Galileo did not show great interest in the study of medicine. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• But the mind of the young Galileo was already remarkably acute. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.

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