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Galileo Galilei
Inventors and Scientists · Renaissance · The Starry Messenger · The Tuscan Sage · 1564–1642

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“Nature is written in the language of mathematics, and I merely read it aloud.”

You have found me at the telescope, pointed at the night sky. Sit down — let us look together.

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My name is Galileo Galilei. I was born in Pisa, studied at the University of Pisa, and fell in love with the sky in Padua. I turned my tube on Jupiter and saw four moons that no one had seen before me.

I am not afraid of questions. I am afraid of silence. Speak to me plainly — about what you see, and about what keeps you from seeing.

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