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Galileo
Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), Italian scientist, one of the first to turn a telescope to the sky; he was condemned by a church court for supporting the teaching of Copernicus.
Essays: First Series, Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Essays: First Series, Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Reincarnation and Karma, Rudolf Steiner
Galileo Galilei, Italian scientist of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Tradition says he discovered the law of the pendulum by watching a swinging lamp in a cathedral.
- Game Theory: A Very Short Introduction, Ken Binmore
Galileo Galilei, Italian scientist of the seventeenth century, one of the first to turn a telescope to the sky.