Here are 12 intriguing facts about Galileo Galilei that you may not know: Galileo Galilei’s Names Sound Similar on Purpose He was born in Tuscany, Italy in 1564, when parents frequently provided their ...

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 ...

To secular scholars, Galileo Galilei (1564-1642 ... who was slated to inherit his father’s title as Grand Duke of Tuscany. The struggling academic dedicated one of his new inventions, a ...

But did you know that the painter Artemisia Gentileschi was pen pals with the astronomer Galileo Galilei ... Il de’ Medici—the Grand Duke of Tuscany—as he had done in 1620.