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On February 15, 1564, Galileo Galilei is born- three days prior to the death of Michelangelo- and the same year as the birth of William Shakespeare.
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From 1581 to 1585, Galileo studied medicine at the University of Pisa, though more interested in science and mathematics.
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Used telescope to observe the moon, and the moons of Jupiter.
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Appointed mathematician to the Medici family and professor of philosophy and mathematics at the University of Pisa; returns to Florence
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The Inquisition places Nicholas Copernicus's "On Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres" on suspended list, and Galileo is forbidden to write or teach Copernicus's ideas as absolute truth or compatible with scripture.
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The Inquisition sentences Galileo to like in prison, which was commuted to house arrest.
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Galileo dies on January 8, at the age of seventy-nine.
