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Galileo Galilei
1. Brief Biography
Galileo was born on February 15, in Pisa. By the time he died on January 8, (but see problems with the date, Machamer , pp. 24–5) he was as famous as any person in Europe.
Doresa galileo biography
Moreover, when he was born there was no such thing as ‘science’, yet by the time he died science was well on its way to becoming a discipline and its concepts and method a whole philosophical system.
Galileo and his family moved to Florence in He started to study for the priesthood, but left and enrolled for a medical degree at the University of Pisa.
He never completed this degree, but instead studied mathematics notably with Ostilio Ricci, the mathematician of the Tuscan court. Later he visited the mathematician Christopher Clavius in Rome and started a correspondence with Guildobaldo del Monte.
He applied and was turned down for a position in Bologna, but a few years later in , with the help of Clavius and del Monte, he was appointed to the chair of math