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Born in Pisa, Italy
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He tested his water pump in a garden in Padua
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discovered the law of uniformly accelerated motion, which he associated with a law of erroneous velocities
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Galileo, who no longer gives courses to Cosme II de Médicis, builds his first telescope. Contrary to the Dutch telescope, this one does not deform objects and magnifies them 6 times, that is, twice as much as its opponent. -
Despite spending two months moving heaven and earth to prevent the inevitable, he is summoned on February 16, 1616 by the Holy Office to examine the censorship proposals. It is a catastrophe for him. The Copernican theory is condemned as "nonsense, an absurdity in philosophy and formally heretical"
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On February 21, 1632, Galileo, protected by Pope Urban VIII and the Grand Duke of Tuscany Ferdinand II de' Medici, published his Massimi sistemi dialogue in Florence, where he implicitly mocked Ptolemy's geocentrism.
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Galileo dies in Arcetri at the age of 77. His body is buried in Florence on January 9.