Galileo Galilei: Facts

early Baroque lutenist Michelagnolo Galilei was the younger brother of the renowned astronomer Galileo Galilei?
Matthias Bernegger in 1635 translated Galileo Galilei's Dialogo from Italian into Latin?
Marc'Antonio Mazzoleni was Galileo's personal instrument maker and helped Galileo make military compasses and other instruments?
antiquarian Antonio Francesco Gori is alleged to have stolen Galileo's finger when the scientist's remains were transferred in 1737 to Santa Croce, Florence?
17th-century philosopher Cesare Cremonini refused to look at the Moon's mountains through Galileo's telescope, believing that Aristotle had proven the Moon was a perfect sphere?

Facts on topics related to Galileo Galilei

the Condemnations of 1277 at the University of Paris (pictured) are cited by historians as the birth of science, as they forced scholars to question Aristotle and think about the physical world in new ways?
throughout the development of science, many ideas have been obliterated by incorporation?

British philosopher Iain King is attempting to apply the scientific revolution to ethics?
the Merton Thesis holds that Protestantism had significant influences on the course of the scientific revolution?

12th-century Muslim scientist Al-Khazini, who proposed a theory of gravitation long before Isaac Newton, was, in his early life, a slave of the Seljuq Turks?
Isaac Newton was so unhappy with the publication of his Arithmetica Universalis, he considered buying all the copies of the first edition so he could destroy them?
Benjamin Motte published many famous works such as Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels (pictured) and the first English edition of Isaac Newton's Principia, an edition that became the standard translation for over 200 years?
Cranbury Park (pictured) near Winchester, England, was the home of Sir Isaac Newton?
William Chaloner was a counterfeiter, swindler, charlatan, sham plotter, and agent provocateur, who was convicted by Isaac Newton, sent to Newgate Prison, and hanged on the gallows at Tyburn?

Albert Einstein, according to writer Illana Katz, may have had autism?
Iannis Xenakis wrote Metastasis to represent the sounds of warfare and Einsteinian views of time?
editor Willi Eichler's 1932 Urgent Call for Unity to thwart the Nazi Party's rise to power was signed by 33 leading German intellectuals including Albert Einstein, Erich Kästner and Käthe Kollwitz?
in 1926, Albert Einstein solved the tea leaf paradox, which states that if the tea in a teacup is stirred, the tea leaves will collect in the middle rather than at the edges?
the bending of starlight around the Sun during the solar eclipse of 1919 was a testimony to the predictive power of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity?
when Fr. Jeremiah Callahan was appointed president of Duquesne University in 1931, he used the opportunity to tell reporters about his personal critique of Einstein's theory of relativity?

17th-century philosopher Cesare Cremonini refused to look at the Moon's mountains through Galileo's telescope, believing that Aristotle had proven the Moon was a perfect sphere?
Aristotle believed that a vital heat was produced in the heart, causing blood to boil and expand outward into the arteries with each pulsation?
Aristotle's ideas of physics held that because an object could not move without an immediate source of energy, arrows created a vacuum behind them that pushed them through the air?
dramatic structure has been diagrammed by both Aristotle and Gustav Freytag?
Other Songs, an award winning novel by Jacek Dukaj, a Polish science fiction writer, describes a unique world in which the ideas of Aristotle and Hegel replace the laws of physics?
the Condemnations of 1277 at the University of Paris (pictured) are cited by historians as the birth of science, as they forced scholars to question Aristotle and think about the physical world in new ways?

Roger Bacon sent his Opus Majus, a treatise of natural science, to Pope Clement IV in 1267?

Joseph Losey directed both the first U.S. theatrical version of Bertolt Brecht's Galileo in 1947 and the 1975 film version?

Galileo's father Vincenzo Galilei was a noted Italian lutenist?
the passing of the Great Comet of 1577 (pictured) caused almost century-long debate, during which Galileo argued that comets were merely optical illusions?