10 Fascinating Facts About Galileo Galilei That May Surprise You
Do his first and last names sound similar on purpose?
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6 min readFeb 5, 2022
Italian philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer Galileo Galilei was born on February 15, 1564, in Pisa, Italy. His family shifted to Florence a few years later and continued to live there for generations. Galileo initially studied medicine but became obsessed with…