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23 unusual facts about Galileo Galilei


1635: The Cannon Law

Following the events of 1634: The Galileo Affair, Pope Urban VIII had been won over to the actions of the Americans after being saved from his attempted assassination and his subsequent pardon of Galileo Galilei.

Alexandre Koyré

Following Husserl's Cartesian Meditations, a series of lectures given in Paris and one of the more important of Husserl's later works, Koyré met again with Husserl repeatedly and influenced his understanding of Galileo.

Anna Maria Nobili

After having published several papers on celestial mechanics, also in collaboration with Clifford Will and E. Myles Standish, Nobili is now Principal Investigator of the Galileo Galilei (GG) experiment aimed to improve the accuracy

B. V. Naik

He always gave the example of Galileo whose theory in astronomy was not accepted for a long time.

Christina of Lorraine

Galileo wrote his Letter to Grand Duchess Christina, expounding on the relationship between science and revelation, in 1615.

Dialogo de Cecco da Ronchitti da Bruzene in perpuosito de la stella Nova

Although the book itself claims to be by a certain Cecco da Ronchitti, it has been conjectured that it may have been written by Galileo under an assumed name.

Galilei

Galileo Galilei (1564–1642), astronomer, philosopher, and physicist.

Gnomon of Saint-Sulpice

The building of the Gnomon inside the Church of Saint-Sulpice occurred at a time when Rome was relaxing its stance against the theories of Galileo Galilei, as his works were being printed in Rome with the agreement of the Holy See, and in 1757 the Pope removed the works of Galileo from the Index Librorum Prohibitorum.

Grant H. Palmer

Critics of the LDS Church, and Palmer himself, have compared the disfellowshipment of Grant Palmer to the trial of Galileo Galilei by the Roman Catholic Church.

Groundling Marsh

In the title sequence of every episode, he is seen looking through a telescope, implying that he is named after Galileo Galilei, the famous astronomer.

Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland

There he used a telescope to make a map of the moon several months before Galileo did the same.

Léon Arthur Elchinger

His intervention were pretty noted at that time : they concerned mainly the rehabilitation of Galileo Galilei

Monument to Philip IV of Spain

However, its equestrian statue of the king dates to the 17th century and was produced by the Italian sculptor Pietro Tacca using scientific advice from Galileo Galilei and drawings by Diego Velázquez and a bust by Juan Martínez Montañés (who also collaborated on the work).

Nick Wilding

In 2012 Wilding was able to prove on the basis of forensic evidence that a special edition of Sidereus Nuncius of Galileo Galilei

Philip III, Landgrave of Hesse-Butzbach

Philip III also corresponded with the astronomers Kepler and Galileo.

Reginald Aldworth Daly

Daly summarized his ideas in his 1926 book, Our Mobile Earth, which included on the title page small print adopted from Galileo: E pur si muove.

Richard Robert Madden

Galileo and the Inquisition, London: Burns & Lambert; Dublin: J. Mullany, 1863.

Robert Grosseteste

These ideas established a tradition that carried forward to Padua and Galileo Galilei in the 17th century.

SACI

This location places SACI students in the vicinity of the Duomo, the churches of San Lorenzo and Santa Maria Novella, and is just steps away from the central market and the new Alinari photography museum.The Palazzo was remodeled as a residence in the 17th century for the mathematician Vincenzo Viviani, who had been a pupil of the astronomer and scientist Galileo Galilei.

Salviati

In Galileo's Dialogue, Salviati is the character who speaks for him.

Sandwich-structured composite

1638 Galileo Galilei describes the efficiency of tubes versus solid rods.

The Empire of Glass

The Doctor, Steven, and Vicki travel to what seems to be Venice in 1609, where they meet a host of historical characters including Galileo Galilei and William Shakespeare.

Villa Il Gioiello

Villa il Gioiello ("The Jewel") is a villa in Florence, central Italy, famous for being one of the residences of Galileo Galilei, which he lived in from 1631 until his death in 1642.


Christoph Scheiner

They provided one of many reasons for the subsequent unpleasant argument between Scheiner and Galileo Galilei.

The inventory of Leopold’s library contains works by Tycho Brahe and Galileo Galilei: Leopold lead a friendly correspondence with Galilei.

Deltoid curve

Ordinary cycloids were studied by Galileo Galilei and Marin Mersenne as early as 1599 but cycloidal curves were first conceived by Ole Rømer in 1674 while studying the best form for gear teeth.

Gabriel's Horn

The apparent paradox formed part of a great dispute over the nature of infinity involving many of the key thinkers of the time including Thomas Hobbes, John Wallis and Galileo Galilei.

Galilean invariance

Galileo Galilei first described this principle in 1632 in his Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems using the example of a ship travelling at constant velocity, without rocking, on a smooth sea; any observer doing experiments below the deck would not be able to tell whether the ship was moving or stationary.

Galileoscope

It is meant to be an inexpensive means by which millions of people can view the same things seen by Galileo Galilei, such as the craters of Earth's Moon, four of Jupiter's moons, and the Pleiades.

Gian Vincenzo Pinelli

Pinelli's interest in the new science of optics was formative for Galileo Galilei, for whom Pinelli opened his library in the 1590s, where Galileo read the unpublished manuscripts, consisting of lecture notes and drafts of essays on optics, of Ettore Ausonio, a Venetian mathematician and physician, and of Giuseppe Moleto, professor of mathematics at Padua (Dupre).

History of structural engineering

The foundations of modern structural engineering were laid in the 17th century by Galileo Galilei, Robert Hooke and Isaac Newton with the publication of three great scientific works.

House of Elzevir

Also, they are noted for their publication in 1638 of Galileo's last work, the Two New Sciences, at a time when the Inquisition forbade the latter's writings.

Maria Luisa Altieri Biagi

She has written essays on the language of important historical characters, as Galileo Galilei and Francesco Redi.

Mizar and Alcor

More components of the Mizar system were discovered with the advent of the telescope and spectroscopy; a fine, easily-split visual target, Mizar was the first telescopic binary discovered—most probably by Benedetto Castelli who in 1617 asked Galileo Galilei to observe it.

News from the New World Discovered in the Moon

The masque refers to the discoveries of features on the Moon made by contemporaneous astronomers — Galileo Galilei most famous among them — using the earliest telescopes.

Palazzo dei Cartelloni

The owner of the building, the mathematician Vincenzo Viviani, had them applied on the main façade in 1693, in order to celebrate and glorify the life and many discoveries of his master, Galileo Galilei.

Pietro Tacca

The daring stability of the statue was calculated by Galileo Galilei: the horse rears, and the entire weight of the sculpture balances on the two rear legs—and, discreetly, its tail— a feat that had never been attempted in a figure on a heroic scale, of which Leonardo had dreamed.

Principle of relativity

The special principle of relativity was first explicitly enunciated by Galileo Galilei in 1632 in his Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems, using the metaphor of Galileo's ship.

Public Works of Art Project

The monument is a large outdoor concrete sculpture on the front lawn that pays homage to six of the greatest astronomers of all time:  Hipparchus (about 150 BC); Nicholas Copernicus (1473–1543); Galileo Galilei (1564–1642); Johannes Kepler (1571–1630); Isaac Newton (1642–1727); and William Herschel (1738–1822).

Stendhal syndrome

When he visited the Basilica of Santa Croce, where Niccolò Machiavelli, Michelangelo and Galileo Galilei are buried, he saw Giotto's frescoes for the first time and was overcome with emotion.

Stillman Drake

Drake showed how the complex interaction of experimental measurement and mathematical analysis led Galileo to his law of falling bodies.

Structural analysis

1638: Galileo Galilei published the book "Two New Sciences" in which he examined the failure of simple structures

The Shadow of Night

The three noblemen and their associates, like Sir Walter Raleigh, John Dee and Thomas Harriot among others, have been interpreted as members of a clique of advanced thinkers called The School of Night, who were interested in promoting new ideas like the Copernican and Galilean view of a heliocentric solar system, and the spirit of open inquiry that underlay it.

Venetian literature

Notable is a manuscript titled "Dialogue ... on the New star" attributed to Galileo (1564–1642).

Vincenzo Gamba

Vincenzo or Vincenzio Gamba (1606–1649), later Vincenzo Galilei (1619), was the illegitimate son of Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) and his mistress Marina Gamba (1570–1612).