Portrait of Galileo Galilei by Justus Sustermans, 1636. Uffizi Museum, Florence.

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   "Where the senses fail us, reason must step in..."
   Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences

   Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer, and polymath Galileo Galilei died #OTD in 1642.

   Galileo studied speed and velocity, gravity and free fall, the principle of relativity, inertia, projectile motion and also worked in applied science and technology, describing the properties of the pendulum and "hydrostatic balances". via @wikipedia

   Galileo Galilei at PG:
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