A 1930's impression of Galileo (aka Galileo Galilei & Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei - 1564 – 1642) polymath astronomer, physicist and engineer. He is seen here noticing the swinging of a lamp (fore-runner of the clock pendulum). He is known variously as the "father of observational astronomy",[4] the "father of modern physics", "father of the scientific method" and "father of modern science", having studied scientific laws of speed and velocity, pendulums, gravity and free fall, the principle of relativity, inertia and, projectile motion

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