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... Many people take the night sky for granted; one man who did not was Galileo Galilei: a man guilty of doing all of the above. It is partially thanks to Galileo that we can be so knowledgeable about the night sky in modern times.
Galileo Galilei was born in 1564, in Pisa, Italy. His parents were Vincenzo Galilei and Guilia Ammannati. ... It was in this setting that Galileo, Vincenzo’s and Guilia’s first child, was born.
When Galileo was eight years old, his family moved to Venice, his father’s place of birth. Galileo remained in Pisa for two years staying with a relative of his mother’s. Two years later, at the age of ten, Galileo returned to his parents in Venice and was there tutored by Jacopo Borghini until old enough to be educated in a monastery. Once he was of age, Galileo was sent to study at Camaldolese Monastery at Vallombrosa located just southeast of Florence. Galileo soon embraced the life of the Camaldolese monk with affection. ... Galileo’s father was not happy about this (Vincenzo’s dream for Galileo was for him to be a physician), and pulled him from the monastery.
Galileo was sent back to Pisa and stayed with the same relative as before. Galileo studied medicine (although his true passion was studying mathematics and philosophy, which he did in his off-time), and did quite well in school. Galileo enrolled in the University of Pisa to pursue his medical degree.
In 1582, Ostilio Ricci, who was the mathematician of the Tuscan Court and a former pupil of Tartaglia, taught a course on Euclids “Elements” at the University of Pisa which Galileo attended.
Approximate Word count = 1262
Approximate Pages = 5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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