Galileo Galilei

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Galileo Galilei

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biography
▪ Galileo Galilei was an Italian physicist, mechanic,
astronomer, philosopher, mathematician who had a
significant influence on the science of his time.He was
one of the first to use a telescope to observe celestial
bodies and made a number of outstanding astronomical
discoveries. Galileo is the founder of experimental
physics. With his experiments, he convincingly refuted
the speculative metaphysics of Aristotle and laid the
foundation of classical mechanics.During his lifetime, he
was known as an active supporter of the heliocentric
system of the world, which led Galileo to a serious
conflict with the Catholic Church.

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Galileo was the first to establish the law
of falling and to confirm it empirically. He
also discovered the physical formula for
the flight of a body moving at an angle to
a horizontal surface. The parabolic
movement of the abandoned object was
important for the calculation of artillery
tables in the future.

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Another great physicist formulated the law of
inertia, which became the fundamental axiom of
mechanics. Another discovery was the
substantiation of the principle of relativity for
classical mechanics, as well as the calculation of the
formula for the oscillation of pendulums. Based on
the latest research, the first pendulum clock was
invented in 1657 by the physicist Huygens.

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death
Galileo Galilei died on
January 8, 1642 in the
Italian city of Arcetri at the
age of 78 in his bed. Pope
Urban forbade burying the
scientist in the family crypt
of the Basilica of Santa
Croce in Florence, so he was
buried without honors and a
monument.