Galileo

[ gal-uh-ley-oh, -lee-oh; Italian gah-lee-le-aw ]

noun

1. Galileo Galilei, 1564–1642, Italian physicist and astronomer.
2. Aerospace. a U.S. space probe designed to take photographs and obtain other scientific information while orbiting the planet Jupiter.

Galileo

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/ ˌɡælɪˈleɪəʊ /

noun

1. a US spacecraft, launched 1989, that entered orbit around Jupiter in late 1995 to study the planet and its major satellites; burned up in the planet's atmosphere in 2003

Galileo

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/ ˌɡælɪˈleɪəʊ /

noun

1. Galileo15641642MItalianSCIENCE: mathematicianSCIENCE: astronomerSCIENCE: physicist full name Galileo Galilei. 1564–1642, Italian mathematician, astronomer, and physicist. He discovered the isochronism of the pendulum and demonstrated that falling bodies of different weights descend at the same rate. He perfected the refracting telescope, which led to his discovery of Jupiter's satellites, sunspots, and craters on the Earth's moon. He was forced by the Inquisition to recant his support of the Copernican system

Galileo

1. An Italian scientist of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries; his full name was Galileo Galilei. Galileo proved that objects with different masses fall at the same velocity . One of the first persons to use a telescope to examine objects in the sky, he saw the moons of Jupiter , the mountains on the moon, and sunspots .

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Authorities of the Roman Catholic Church forced Galileo to renounce his belief in the model of the solar system proposed by Nicolaus Copernicus . Galileo had to assert that the Earth stands still, and the sun revolves around it. A famous legend holds that Galileo, after making this public declaration about a motionless Earth, muttered, “Nevertheless, it does move.”

Example Sentences

Along with Galileo, it represents Brecht at his epic apogee.

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Aristotle and Galileo looked up at the same lights in the night sky.

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Aristotle saw a universe with a stationary earth at the center and Galileo saw a universe with the earth in motion about the sun.

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His birth might also be remembered as occurring in the same year as that of the great astronomer Galileo.

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Already Galileo began to encounter vulgar indignation which accused him of impiety.

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Against Galileo, the war against the Copernican theory was concentrated.

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Their wisdom in this will be best appreciated from the fact that none of Galileo's reasons maintained themselves.

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Thus Galileo came very near to inventing both the thermometer and the barometer, but yet invented neither!

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