Galileo Galilei

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)

• Italian physicist, astronomer, mathematician, engineer and philosopher
• Supported Copernican theory (Heliocentric)
• Constructed his own telescope 32x more powerful than the previous one invented by the Dutch eyeglass maker
• Confirmed with telescope that the earth was not the center of the universe
• Fundamentally responsible for our knowledge of the universe

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