Called the father of modern experimental science, Galileo Galilei was a seventeenth-century Italian astronomer and physicist. He is known for discovering the law of pendulums, using a telescope to view the moons of Jupiter, supporting a Copernican view of the universe, and a famous, but perhaps fictional, gravity experiment from the top of the Tower of Pisa.
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