Galileo Galilei Galileo Galilei was born on February 15, 1564 in Pisa.” (1:1) “His father, Vincenzo Galilei, belonged to a noble family of straitened fortune.” (2:1) Galileo had an “aptitude for mathematical and mechanical pursuits, but his parents, wishing to turn him aside from studies which promised no substantial return, destined him for the medical profession.” (2:1) “But all was in vain, and at an early age the youth had to be left to follow the bent of his native genius, which speedily paved him in the very first rank of natural philosophers.” (2:1) His father, and accomplished scholar, taught Galileo a love for learning and a distaste for authority. He was encouraged to study medicine and enrolled in the University of Pisa to do so, but soon turned to mathematics and mechanics. He left the university without a degree. In 1592, he was offered achair in mathematics at the....

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