Galileo Galilei was the founder of modern physics ... The one in which Galileo was born was an autocracy, the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, with its capital at Florence and the second city at Pisa ...

The unremarkable-looking object is in fact one of the most important artifacts in the history of science: it's one of only two surviving telescopes known to have been made by Galileo Galilei ...

Equipment: A Galileo's thermometer (a sealed liquid filled glass cylinder ... W.E.K. Middleton writes that these were invented in Florence by "none less than the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Ferdinand II, ...

Galileo Galilei was born on February 15, 1564 in Pisa, Italy, to Vincenzo Galilei, a famous musician, and Giulia Ammannati, a housewife. The eldest of six children, he went to school in a ...