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Galileo 1564 / 1641

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Galileo and his telescopes

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Galileo Galilei<br>Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564[2] – 8 January 1642)[1][3] was a Tuscan (Italian) physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the scientific revolution

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Galileo Galilei

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	G 	alileo Galilei, c1875. Half-length portrait of the Italian astronomer and physicist, with a globe, 	telescope, and quill pen. The words &quote pur' si muove", (and yet it moves), were possibly never spoken 	by Galileo but refer to his discovery of the movement of the planets which were previously believed 	to be fixed. From &quotLessons from Noble lives".   Galileo Galilei, c1875.   <br>Credit: The British Library / HIP / TopFoto

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	Portrait of Galileo Galilei, 1793. From &quotVita e commercio letterario di Galileo Galilei" by Giovanni 	Battista Clemente Nelli. (Lausanne, 1793). Galileo Galilei was a philosopher, astronomer, and 	mathematician who made fundamental contributions to the sciences of motion, astronomy, and strength 	of materials and to the development of the scientific method.  Portrait of Galileo Galilei, 1793.   <br>Credit: The British Library / HIP / TopFoto

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ASTROLOGY - GALILEO<br>Title page from 'Dialogo di Galileo Galilei', 1632, published on behalf of the Medici, who supported Galileo's work in Florence up to 1632.  This book led to the trial of Galileo

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Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)<br>Galileo formulated laws of motion which conflicted with the ancients' view.  He championed the heliocentric hypothesis

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Portrait of Galileo (1564-1642), Italian mathematician, astronomer and physicist.<br><br><br>

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EUROPEAN MODERN HISTORY. ITALY<br>GALILEO<br>

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Galileo<br>

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Galileo Galilei ( 15 February 1564 - 8 January 1642 )

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Galileo Galilei   1564 - 1642<br>Italian physicist mathematician astronomer and philosopher <br>Played a major part in the scientific revolution<br>Portrait  by Justus Sustermans<br>

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Brecht's The Life of Galileo - Scientist Galileo played by Bernard Miles, the &quotfather" of the mermaid Theatre, explains to his apprentice Andrea (Michael Platt) his theory that the earth was not in fact the centre of all creation, but revolved around the sun - Photo taken 15th June 1960.<br>©TopFoto

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Brecht's The Life of Galileo - Scientist Galileo played by Bernard Miles, the &quotfather" of the mermaid Theatre, encouraging his apprentice Andrea (Michael Platt) to look through a lens stuck into the half of an apple at another lens in the other half of the apple resting on a ruler.  Galileo faced torture and death from a shocked Catholic world after his theory that the earth revolved around the sun, instead of being the centre of creation.- Photo taken 15th June 1960.<br>©TopFoto

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HISTORY. ITALY.<br>GALILEO GALILEI<br>Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564[2] – 8 January 1642)[1][3] was a Tuscan (Italian) physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the scientific revolution<br>

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Painting. Portrait of Galileo Galilei. 1564-1642<br>Copyright: The Ancient Art & Architecture Collection Ltd.<br>

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Portrait of Galileo Galilei by Justus Sustermans, located at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence

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Hall of Galileo's Museum, inside the Torre del Gallo (or Villa Gallina), in Pian de' Giullari, in the environs of Florence.

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The House of Galileo Galilei in Pisa

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Funerary monument of Galileo Galilei in the church of Santa Croce in Forence.

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Profile of the bust of Galileo, originally from the Villa Gallina at Torre del Gallo in Pian de'Giullari, Florence

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Galileo Galilei Contemplating the Swinging of the Lamp in the Cathedral of Pisa, by Luigi Sabatelli, in the Tribune of Galileo, Palazzo Torrigiani (Museo Zoologico della Specola), Via Romana, Florence

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Galileo Galilei Presenting His Telescope, by Luigi Sabatelli, in the Tribune of Galileo, Palazzo Torrigiani (Museo Zoologico della Specola), Via Romana, Florence

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THE LIFE OF GALILEO<br>Almeida THeatre 02/94<br>RICHARD GRIFFITHS / PETER<br><br>ENGLAND

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GALILEO / GALILEI by Phillip<br><br>Glass<br>Barbican Theatre 11/02<br>Director: Mary Zimmerman

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The Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht in a new version by David HareRichard Griffiths<br>Almeida Theatre 1994<br>Director: Jonathan Kent<br>credit: Ivan Kyncl / ArenaPAL

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The Life of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht in a new version by David HareRichard Griffiths<br>Almeida Theatre 1994<br>Director: Jonathan Kent<br>credit: Ivan Kyncl / ArenaPAL

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The Life of Galileo<br>at the <br>Olivier Theater, London, Great Britain <br>July 5, 2006 <br>Press Photocall <br>l to r <br>Bertie Carvel (as Ludovico Marsili) ; Zubin Varla (as The Little Monk); <br>Simon Russell Beale (as Galileo Galilei<br>Dermot Kerrigan (as Federzoni) <br><br>Music by: Paddy Cunneen; Adapted by: in a version by David Hare; Author: Bertolt Brecht; Director: Howard Davies; Producer: National Theatre; Designer: Bunny Christie; Choreographer: Stuart Hopps; Lighting Designer: Mark Henderson; Sound: Paul Groothuis<br><br>Credit: Elliott Franks / ArenaPAL

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The Life of Galileo<br>at the <br>Olivier Theater, London, Great Britain <br>July 5, 2006 <br>Press Photocall <br><br>Simon Russell Beale (as Galileo Galilei)<br>Zubin Varla (as The Little Monk)<br><br>Music by: Paddy Cunneen; Adapted by: in a version by David Hare; Author: Bertolt Brecht; Director: Howard Davies; Producer: National Theatre; Designer: Bunny Christie; Choreographer: Stuart Hopps; Lighting Designer: Mark Henderson; Sound: Paul Groothuis<br><br>Credit: Elliott Franks / ArenaPAL

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The Life of Galileo<br>at the <br>Olivier Theater, London, Great Britain <br>July 5, 2006 <br>Press Photocall <br><br>Simon Russell Beale (as Galileo Galilei)<br>Duncan Bell (as Sagredo)<br><br>Music by: Paddy Cunneen; Adapted by: in a version by David Hare; Author: Bertolt Brecht; Director: Howard Davies; Producer: National Theatre; Designer: Bunny Christie; Choreographer: Stuart Hopps; Lighting Designer: Mark Henderson; Sound: Paul Groothuis<br><br>Credit: Elliott Franks / ArenaPAL

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The Life of Galileo<br>at the <br>Olivier Theater, London, Great Britain <br>July 5, 2006 <br>Press Photocall <br><br>Simon Russell Beale (as Galileo Galilei)<br><br>Music by: Paddy Cunneen; Adapted by: in a version by David Hare; Author: Bertolt Brecht; Director: Howard Davies; Producer: National Theatre; Designer: Bunny Christie; Choreographer: Stuart Hopps; Lighting Designer: Mark Henderson; Sound: Paul Groothuis<br><br>Credit: Elliott Franks / ArenaPAL

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SIMON RUSSELL BEALE AS GALILEO AND RYAN WATSON AS ANDREA SARTI AS A BOY IN " THE LIFE OF GALILEO " DIRECTED BY HOWARD DAVIES AT THE OLIVIER THEATRE, London 07/06<br>Credit: NIGEL NORRINGTON / ArenaPAL

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SIMON RUSSELL BEALE AS GALILEO AND RYAN WATSON AS ANDREA SARTI AS A BOY IN " THE LIFE OF GALILEO " DIRECTED BY HOWARD DAVIES AT THE OLIVIER THEATRE ROYAL NATIONAL THEATRE, London 07/06<br>Credit: NIGEL NORRINGTON / ArenaPAL

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LIFE OF GALILEO by John Dexter<br>National Theatre - 1980<br>MICHAEL GAMBON as Galileo<br>Credit: Chris Davies / ArenaPAL

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LIFE OF GALILEO by John Dexter<br>National Theatre - 1980<br>MICHAEL GAMBON as Galileo<br>Credit: Chris Davies / ArenaPAL

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GALILEO GALILEI (1564-1642). <br>Italian astronomer and physicist. Line engraving from his 'Sidereus Nuncius', Florence, Italy, 1610.

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GALILEO GALILEI (1564-1642). <br>Itlian astronomer and physicist.

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GALILEO GALILEI (1564-1642). <br>Italian astronomer and physicist. Steel engraving, French, 19th century.

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GALILEO'S MICROSCOPE. <br>6) Zacharias Janssen's compound microscope, 1590; 7) Galileo's microscope; 18) Galileo's thermoscope.

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GALILEO GALILEI (1564-1642). <br>Italian astronomer and physicist. Galileo in prison. Mezzotint engraving, 19th century.

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GALILEO GALILEI (1564-1642). <br>Galileo before the Holy Office in 1633. After the painting, 1847, by Tony Robert-Fleury.

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GALILEO GALILEI (1564-1642). <br>Italian astronomer, mathematician, and physicist. Portrait by an unknown artist.

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GALILEO GALILEI (1564-1642) <br>determining the magnification of one of his telescopes: colored engraving, 19th century.

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GALILEO GALILEI (1564-1642). <br>Italian astronomer, mathematician, and physicist. Under house arrest: mezzotint, 19th century.

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GALILEO GALILEI <br>(1564-1642). Flemish colored engraving, 1695.

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GALILEO GALILEI (1564-1642). <br>Italian mathematician, astronomer and physicist. Colored line engraving after the drawing by Octavio Leoni, c1624.

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GALILEO GALILEI (1564-1642). <br>Italian astronomer, mathematician, and physicist. After the painting by Justus Sustermans.

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MILTON VISITING GALILEO <br>during Milton's Italian tour of 1638-1639: colored engraving after a painting by Annibale Gatti.

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GALILEO GALILEI (1564-1642)<br>demonstrating his telescopic discovery of the satellites of Jupiter to the councilors of Venice in 1610: colored French engraving, 19th century.

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GALILEO GALILEI (1564-1642). <br>Italian astronomer and physicist. Line engraving, 1624, by Ottavio Leoni.

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GALILEO GALILEI (1564-1642). <br>Italian astronomer and physicist. Line engraving.

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GALILEO GALILEI (1564-1642). <br>Italian astronomer and physicist. Painting by Justus Sustermans

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TWO OF GALILEO'S TELESCOPES<br>on display in the Museum of the History of Science, Florence, Italy.

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GALILEO: SIDEREUS, 1610. <br>Title-page of the first edition of Galileo Galilei's 'Sidereus Nuncius,' in which Galileo described the invention and use of the telescope for astronomical purposes, with discoveries of the mountainous surface of the moon, the stars in the Milky Way, and the satellites of Jupiter. Published in Venice, Italy, 1610.

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GALILEO: SIDEREUS, 1610. <br>Description and plan of his astronomical telescope from Galileo Galelei's 'Sidereus Nuncius,' Venice, Italy, 1610.

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GALILEO: NOTEBOOK, 1610. <br>Page from Galileo's notebook recording his observations of Jupiter and its satellites, 1610.

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GALILEO: MOON. <br>Sketches by Galileo of the moon as he saw it through the telescope, from his book 'The Starry Messenger,' 1616.

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GALILEO GALILEI (1564-1642). <br>Italian mathematician, astronomer, and physicist. Drawing, c1642, by Ottavio Leoni.

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URANIA & ASTRONOMERS, 1660. <br>Tycho Brahe, Ptolemy, St. Augustine, Nicolaus Copernicus, Galileo and Andreas Cellarius surround Urania, the Muse of Astronomy: frontispiece of Cellarius' Atlas Coelestis seu Harmonia Macrocosmica, published in 1660 at Amsterdam.

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GALILEO: SATELLITES, 1610. <br>Page from Galileo Galilei's notes recording his discovery of Jupiter's four satellites, 1610.

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GALILEO: THERMOMETER. <br>Galileo Galilei's open-thermometer, or thermoscope. Wood engraving, 19th century.

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GALILEO GALILEI (1564-1642). <br>Italian astronomer and physicist.

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GALILEO GALILEI (1564-1642). <br>Italian astronomer and physicist. Galileo before the Holy Office, 1633. Oil on canvas by Tony Robert-Fleury, 1847.

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GALILEO GALILEI (1564-1642). <br>Italian astronomer and physicist. Painting attributed to Justus Sustermans.

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GALILEO GALILEI (1564-1642). <br>Italian astronomer and physicist. Line and stipple engraving, English, 19th century.

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GALILEO: MOON, 1611. <br>The first drawing of the moon to illustrate craters, 1611.

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MILTON AND GALILEO, 1638-39. <br>English poet John Milton visiting Galileo during his Italian tour of 1638-39. Line engraving, 1856.

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Galileo's observation of the star cluster in Orion and of the Praesepe cluster, 1610. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), one of the greatest scientists of all time, discovered Jupiter's moons and the laws governing falling bodies. This illustration was published in his Sidereus Nuncius (The Sidereal Messenger), 1610. The book was the first work describing what could be seen in the night sky with the newly invented telescope. Using a telescope of his own design, Galileo observed that the planet Jupiter had four satellites, that orbited the planet in a predictable manner like Earth's Moon. <br>Credit: Ann Ronan Picture Library / HIP / TopFoto

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Hans Lippershey, Dutch optician credited with the discovery of the telescope, 1655. Lippershey (c1570-1619) applied for a patent for his telescope in 1608, and word of his invention reached Galileo, who produced a working model in 1609. After the picture by Hendrik Berkman for 'De Vero Telescopic Inventore' by Pierre Borel, 1655.   <br>Credit: Oxford Science Archive / HIP / TopFoto

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Christopher Scheiner's illustration of his idea of the surface of the sun, 1635. German astronomer and mathematician Scheiner (1573-1650) used telescopes invented by Galileo to make over 2000 observations of the Sun, recording sunspots in the process. As a Jesuit, Scheiner held the belief that the Sun, and the heavens generally, had to be perfect, and that sunspots were shadows cast by satellites of the Sun onto its face as they passed across it. This brought him into a bitter dispute with Galileo, who was of the opinion that sunspots were features which formed on the surface of the Sun itself. Scheiner attacked Galileo in his book 'Rosa Ursina', before Galileo's trial before the Inquisition in 1633.  <br>Credit: Oxford Science Archive / HIP / TopFoto

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Geocentric or Earth-centred system of the universe, 1528. At the centre is the world showing Aristotle's (384-323 BC) four elements, Earth, Air, Fire and Water, surrounded by the spheres of the Sun, Moon, planets, and the sphere of the fixed stars. This model, proposed by Aristotle and Ptolemy, continued to be generally accepted as representing the nature of the Universe until the heliocentric (sun-centred) model of the solar system put forward by Copernicus and supported by Galileo and Kepler, began to gain acceptance in the 17th century. From 'La Theorique des Ciels' by Oronto Finaeus. (Paris, 1528). <br>Credit: Oxford Science Archive / HIP / TopFoto

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Galileo observing the swaying of the chandelier in Pisa Cathedral, c1584 (1870).  Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), Italian astronomer, mathematician and physicist, used this observation in his work which led to his discovery of the isochronism of the pendulum and eventually, through Huyghens, to the development of the pendulum clock. From 'Vies des Savants Illustres' by Louis Figuier. (Paris, 1870). <br>Credit: Oxford Science Archive / HIP / TopFoto

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Title page of 'Dialogo', by Galileo, 1632. Title page of 'Dialogo', ('Dialogue on the two chief world systems') was published in Florence in 1632. In 'Dialogo', Galileo defended the Copernican planetary system which states that the planets revolve around the sun. The sale of the book was prohibited by the catholic authorities, and Galileo was forced to recant under the threat of torture, after which he lived under house arrest. <br>Credit: Oxford Science Archive / HIP / TopFoto

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Title page of 'A Discourse Concerning a New World and Another Planet' by John Wilkins, 1683. Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler are represented in the bottom corners. (London, 1683 (Ist edition 1640)) <br>Credit: Oxford Science Archive / HIP / TopFoto

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Galileo Galilei, Italian physicist, astronomer, and philosopher, (20th century). One of the greatest scientists of all time, Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) discovered Jupiter's moons and the laws governing falling bodies. <br>Credit: The Print Collector / HIP /TopFoto

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The young Galileo and Ostilio Ricci, (20th century). Ricci (1540-1603) was court mathematician to Grand Duke Francesco of Tuscany. Galileo enlisted his help in trying to persuade his father to allow him to abandon his medical studies for mathematics. <br>Credit: The Print Collector / HIP /TopFoto

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Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), 1882. Galileo was a Tuscan (Italian) physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the scientific revolution. His achievements include improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations, and support for Copernicanism. Galileo has been called the father of modern observational astronomy, the father of modern physics, the father of science and the father of modern science. From Florence, by Charles Yriarte, translated by CB Pitman and published by Sampson Low (London, 1882). <br>Credit: The Print Collector / HIP /TopFoto

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Ptolemic System, 1660-1661. The Ptolemaic or geocentric model has the Earth at the centre of the Universe with all the other bodies, including the Sun, orbiting around it. From the 16th century it was superseded by the heliocentric models proposed by Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo. From The Celestial Atlas, or The Harmony of the Universe (Atlas coelestis seu harmonia macrocosmica) by Andreas Cellarius, published by Johannes Janssonius, (Amsterdam 1660-1661). <br>Credit: Stapleton Historical Collection / HIP / TopFoto

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Galileo Galilei ©The Image Works Archives

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Vladimir Vysotsky (left) and Dalvin Shcherbakov (right) of the Taganka Theater in Bertold Brecht's &quotGalileo."

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A memorial to Galileo Galilei at the Moscow Planetarium.

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Vladimir Vysotsky (left) as Galileo and Galina Vlasova (right) as Sarti in Bertolt Brecht's play &quotThe Life of Galileo" staged by Moscow's Taganka Theatre.

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&quotGalileo very surprised by the new aspect that offers the surface of the earth". Destouches's lithograph according to Honoré Daumier's satirical cartoon on war threats in the world. &quotLe Charivari", in February 21, 1867.

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Georges Wilson in " Galileo " (Leben des Galilei) of Bertolt Brecht. Paris, T.N.P., January 1963.     LIP-160-079-040

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Georges Wilson in " Galileo " (Leben des Galilei) of Bertolt Brecht. Paris, T.N.P., January 1963.     LIP-160-079-030

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Georges Wilson in " Galileo " (Leben des Galilei) of Bertolt Brecht. Paris, T.N.P., January 1963.     LIP-160-079-005

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Galileo's observation of sunspots.  From Galileo Galilei Istoria, Rome 1613. Engraving

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Galileo's observation of sunspots.  From Galileo Galilei Istoria, Rome 1613. Engraving

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Galileo's diagram of the Copernican (heliocentric) system of the universe showing also his own discovery, the four satellites (moons) of Jupiter. From Galileo Galilei Dialogo, Florence, 1632. Engraving .

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Galileo presenting his telescope to the Muses, and pointing out a heliocentric system of the universe. Note Jupiter and its satellites, the phases of Venus, and the triple nature of Saturn. From Operere di Galileo Galilei, Bologna 1655-1656. Engraving

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Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) Italian astronomer & mathematician, demonstrating his telescope to the Doge and Venetian Senators, 1609. Engraving, 1747.

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Galilei Galileo (1564-1642) Italian astronomer and mathematician. Artist's reconstruction of Galileo recanting. Wood engraving 1880.

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Galileo's 1611 drawing of lunar craters. [c1655].  Galileo Galilei (1554-1642), Italian mathematician, astronomer and physicist, described his telescopic observations of the Moon in a letter to the  Swiss Jesuit astronomer, Christopher Grienberger (1564-1636) in 1611. From Operere di Galileo Galilei (The Works of Galileo Galilei), edited Carlo Manolessi, (Bologna, 1655-56). Woodcut.

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The surface of the Moon showing features based on the observations of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), Italian mathematician and astronomer.

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Galileo observing the swaying of the chandelier in Pisa Cathedral, c1584.   Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) Italian astronomer, mathematician and physicist used this observation in his work which led to his discovery of the isochronism of the pendulum and eventually, through Huyghens, to development of the pendulum clock. From Vies des Savants Illustres,  Louis Figuier, (Paris, 1870).

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Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) Italian astronomer, mathematician and physicist.   Here he is facing the Inquisition, who challenged his claim that the earth moves, thus contradicting the theories of Aristotle. From Vies des Savants Illustres by Louis Figuier. (Paris, 1870). Engraving.

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Title page of John Wilkins A Discourse Concerning a New World & Another Planet London 1683 (Ist edition 1640) Copernicus,  Galileo and Kepler represented in bottom corners.

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