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__**Birth and Death**__
 * =====Born on February 15, 1564 in Pisa, Tuscany=====
 * =====Died on January 8, 1642=====

__**Theory**__ __**Early Life**__
 * =====His theory agreed with Copernicus that there was a sun centered universe, but the planets ran in elliptical orbits=====
 * =====With his telescope he found craters and mountains on the earth's moon, four of jupiter's moons, sunspots on the sun, and the phases of Venus.=====
 * =====Proved that planets are physical bodies like earth=====
 * ===== He worked with microscopes, balances, thermometers, compasses, and telescopes =====
 * ===== Galileo first observed Jupiter on January 7, 1610 through a homemade telescope =====
 * =====He was the eldest of six children=====
 * =====Moved to Florence when he was hardly 8 but left him with Jacopo Borghini for two years=====

__**Adult Life**__ __**Family**__
 * =====When he was 25, he became a professor of mathematics at the University of Pisa.=====
 * =====Instead of completing his degree, he started studying mathematics.=====
 * =====In 1589 he was appointed to the chair of mathematics in Pisa=====
 * =====He taught Geometry, Mechanics and astronomy at the University of Padua until 1610. It was that time when he made major discoveries in both pure science and applied science.=====
 * =====His father was a famous lutenist and music theorist=====
 * =====He had a relationship with a lady named Maria Gamba and "supposedly" had three children=====

__**Fun Facts**__
 * =====Galileo's telescope reached it's 400 year anneversary on August 25, 2009=====
 * =====In 1586 he wrote his first scientific book called " The Little Balance"=====
 * =====Became Blind at the age of 72=====
 * =====The world saw him as "the father of modern observational astronomy" and "the father of modern physics"=====

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