| Galileo Galilei | |
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 Portrait of Galileo Galilei by Giusto Sustermans | |
| Born | 15 February 1564[1] Pisa,[1] Duchy of Florence, Italy |
| Died | 8 January 1642 (aged 77)[1] Arcetri,[1] Grand Duchy of Tuscany, Italy |
| Residence | Grand Duchy of Tuscany, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian (Tuscan) |
| Fields | Astronomy, physics and mathematics |
| Institutions | University of Pisa University of Padua |
| Alma mater | University of Pisa |
| Academic advisors | Ostilio Ricci[2] |
| Notable students | Benedetto Castelli Mario Guiducci Vincenzo Viviani[3] |
| Known for | Kinematics Dynamics Telescopic observational astronomy Heliocentrism |
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| Notes His father was the musician Vincenzo Galilei. Galileo Galilei's mistress Marina Gamba (1570 – 21 August 1612?) bore him two daughters (Maria Celeste (Virginia, 1600–1634) and Livia (1601–1659), both of whom became nuns) and a son Vincenzo (1606–1649), a lut | |
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642)
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after suffering fever and heart palpitations, he died on 8 January 1642, aged 77.[13] The Grand Duke of Tuscany, Ferdinando II, wished to bury him in the main body of the Basilica of Santa Croce, next to the tombs of his father and other ancestors, and to erect a marble mausoleum in his honour.[64] These plans were scrapped, however, after Pope Urban VIII and his nephew, Cardinal Francesco Barberini, protested,[65] because Galileo was condemned by the Catholic Church for "vehement suspicion of heresy".[66] He was instead buried in a small room next to the novices' chapel at the end of a corridor from the southern transept of the basilica to the sacristy.[67] He was reburied in the main body of the basilica in 1737 after a monument had been erected there in his honour;[68] during this move, three fingers and a tooth were removed from his remains.[69] One of these fingers, the middle finger from Galileo's right hand, is currently on exhibition at the Museo Galileo in Florence, Italy.[70]
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