Galileo Galilei

Connected Sites: 4

Definition
Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642) was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath, from Pisa. (wiki)

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  • Piazza del Duomo (Pisa)
    Piazza del Duomo (Pisa)
    Italy
    Inscribed: 1987
    3.80
    498
    14
    Is said to have dropped balls of different masses from the Leaning Tower to demonstrate that their time of descent was independent of their mass - but probably didn't!.
  • Venice and its Lagoon
    Venice and its Lagoon
    Italy
    Inscribed: 1987
    4.52
    611
    19
    1593 became external consultant to the Arsenal visiting it and advising on matters of propulsion, materials and ballistics. His work there stimulated his development of the science of Mechanics
  • Rome
    Rome
    Holy See, Italy
    Inscribed: 1980
    4.57
    661
    13
    Monastery of Sta Maria Sopra Minerva - location of Galileo's trial for heresy and of his "Abjuration".
  • Florence
    Florence
    Italy
    Inscribed: 1982
    4.45
    588
    15
    1642 Buried in the Basilica of Sta Croce, originally in a side room and then in 1737 moved to the main part. The Museo Galileo (near the Uffizi) has on show one of his fingers removed during his reburial