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1 giorno fa · Galileo Galilei. Born: February 15, 1564, Pisa [Italy] Died: January 8, 1642, Arcetri, near Florence (aged 77) Inventions: Galilean telescope. hydrostatic balance. thermometer. compass. Notable Works: “Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems—Ptolemaic and Copernican” “The Sidereal Messenger” (Show more) Notable Family Members:
- Albert Van Helden
- Galileo was a natural philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician who made fundamental contributions to the sciences of motion, astronomy, and stren...
- Galileo invented an early type of thermometer. Although he did not invent the telescope, he made significant improvements to it that enabled astron...
- In 1610 Galileo discovered the four biggest moons of Jupiter (now called the Galilean moons) and the rings of Saturn.
- For his heresy in claiming that Earth orbits the Sun, Galileo was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Roman Catholic Church in 1633. He was not t...
- Galileo influenced scientists for decades to come, not least in his willingness to stand up to the church to defend his findings. His improvements...
1 giorno fa · Death and legacy. Jacques-Yves Cousteau died of a heart attack on 25 June 1997 in Paris, two weeks after his 87th birthday. He was buried in the family vault at Saint-André-de-Cubzac, his birthplace.
1 giorno fa · Bridget Sakr would, one day, like to write a letter to the man responsible for the death of her daughter, Veronique. "I do want him to know that precious life that his actions took away," she ...
5 giorni fa · While it seems like the obvious choice is to spare Shimura based on our own moral compass, the truth is that Shimura wishes to have a samurai death. In the same breath, ...
20 ore fa · One study shows that walking reduces the risk of death by 33 percent and the need for dialysis by 21 percent (4). Those who walked more often saw greater results: participants who walked one-to-two times a week had a 17 percent reduction in death and a 19 percent reduction in kidney replacement therapy, while those who walked at least seven ...
1 giorno fa · Writers sympathetic to the Navy, on the other hand, portray Thomson as a man of undoubted talent and enthusiasm, with some genuine knowledge of the sea, who managed to parlay a handful of modest ideas in compass design into a commercial monopoly for his own manufacturing concern, using his reputation as a bludgeon in the law courts to beat down even small claims of originality from others, and ...
