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GALILEO

Galileo Galilee was an Italian scientist. He was born in 1564 at Pisa and died in 1642. The son of a Florentine nobleman, his father intended him to go into medicine. Galileo entered Pisa University in 1581 but switched to mathematics, becoming professor of mathematics at the age of twenty-five and from 1589 until 1591 working on dynamics. In 1592 he went to Padua as professor of mathematics and made a series of scientific discoveries. Among other discoveries he made, Galileo discovered the ring of Saturn, Jupiter's four major satellites and the sun's spots.
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