Galileo's Life

Galileo was a physicist, astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher who was born in Italy in 1564 to his father, Vincenzo Galilei who was a musician and his mother, Giulia degli Ammannati. Galileo was the first of sixth or seven siblings, most believing it was six children. All born as nobility but not born to a rich family (Galileo, 2008). The family moved to Florence in the 1570s. Galileo never married but had a relationships with a woman named Marina Gamba who lived in his house and had three children with Galileo. Two daughters born, Virginia and Livia, who were each put in convents and became known as Sister Maria Celeste and Sister Arcangela. He left his son, Vincenzio with Marina Gamba in Padua when he moved to Florence in 1610 to take a position at the Court of the Mi family. Vencenzio joined Galileo in 1613 when his mother married Giovanni Bartoluzzi (Galileo, 2008).

By 1581, Galileo was a student at the University of Pisa where he studied the pendulum motion, as he watched a lamp swing back and forth in the Pisa cathedral. In 1602, Galileo made a discovery about the pendulum noting that the time when a p

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