Galileo Galilei
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"The Father of Science"
Early Life
Galileo Galilei was born on February 15, 1564 in Pisa,Italy to Vincenzo Galilei and Giulia Ammanati. He was the first-born of six children. The Galilei's were a musical family, as Vincenzo Galilei was a famous lutenist and composer. At age 8, Galileo's family moved to Florence while Galileo stayed behind with a relative. He joined them at age 10 and was sent by his parents to a monastery at Vallombrosa. Galileo enjoyed the monk life, which did not please his father who urged him to become a medical doctor. He was eventually sent back to Pisa to enroll for a medical degree at the University of Pisa. Galileo was not particularly interested in medicine and so he became distracted by mathematics, continuing to study mathematics over his summers and eventually becoming a mathematics professor.
Contributions to Physics
At age 19, Galileo discovered the nature of the pendulum. He timed a swinging lamp by means of his own pulse and found the period of the pendulum to be the same despite changes in amplitude, which he later verified by experiment.
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