Galileo Galilei
1564–1642
Italian physicist and astronomer. Professor of mathematics, University of Pisa and University of Padua; mathematician and philosopher to the grand duke of Tuscany. Published Dialogue concerning the two chief world systems (1632), discussing the Copernican system, as a result of which he was tried before the Inquisition at Rome.
Source
DSB.
Bibliography
DSB: Dictionary of scientific biography. Edited by Charles Coulston Gillispie and Frederic L. Holmes. 18 vols. including index and supplements. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. 1970–90.
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