. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages. THE history of scientific discoverycontains no name more illustri-ous than that of the Italian astro-nomer and physicist, GalileoGalilei. He was the contempo-rary of Shakespeare, Cervantes,Kepler and Milton. He was notonly a discoverer in many depart-ments, but was made a martyr tothe cause of truth. Galileo Galilei was born atPisa on the i8th of February, 1564. He early developed ataste for classical literature, music, drawing and the desire of his father, a Florentine nobleman of smallfortune, but
. The library of historic characters and famous events of all nations and all ages. THE history of scientific discoverycontains no name more illustri-ous than that of the Italian astro-nomer and physicist, GalileoGalilei. He was the contempo-rary of Shakespeare, Cervantes,Kepler and Milton. He was notonly a discoverer in many depart-ments, but was made a martyr tothe cause of truth. Galileo Galilei was born atPisa on the i8th of February, 1564. He early developed ataste for classical literature, music, drawing and the desire of his father, a Florentine nobleman of smallfortune, but an excellent mathematician and musician, heentered the University of Pisa, November 5, 1581, to studymedicine; but his passion for geometry overbore everything,so that finally he was allowed full scope to his genius formathematics. In 1583 his observation of the oscillations ofthe great bronze lamp in the cathedral of Pisa led to the dis-covery that the pendulum in a small arc moves over equalspaces in equal times, and therefore can be used as a measurerof time. Next followed h
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