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Life and death
• Birthday: 15 February, 1564 • Death day: 8 January, 1642• Age: 78
Where He Was
• The Great Galileo Galilei spent most of his life in Grand Duchy of Tuscany, Italy
• Pisa, the city he was born in is located by the southern border.
Galileo Galilei’s great achievements
• The discovery that the sun had dark spots, called sunspots
AchievementsThe discovery of four satellites (moons) around Jupiter
Achievements• The discovery that planets are circular disks
not just points of light
Achievements
The discovery that Venus has phases as well as the moon
Achievementsthe discovery that the moons surface is not smooth
Interesting facts in 1610 he used the first microscope by looking through the telescope backwards
While Galileo is said to have dropped the balls at the tower of Pisa there is no evidence to conclude he did this other than his apprentice biography of him
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