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Galileo
Born February 15, 1564 in Pisa Italy. "He was Italian mathematician, astronomer, and physicist. He has been referred to as the father of modern astronomy, the father of modern physics," and the father of science. (1) Galileo was a very intelligent man and with his great wisdom the technology he discovered, is still being used today. Galileo challenged the Catholic Church with his belief that everything in the galaxy revolved around the sun, not around the earth. He also was bold enough to publicly disagree with one of the most respected and undisputed names in science, Aristotle, by saying that if you dropped two objects at the same height that have different weights, they would both land at the same time. Galileo was also famous for proving that Aristotle's theory of physics was wrong. Aristotle's theory of Physics was when two objects were dropped at the same time, the heavier object would hit the ground first. This was proven to be wrong by Galileo by his well......

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