Galileo Galilei was born in the town of Pisa in Italy. His father, Vincenzo

Galilei was a composer and a musician. At Galileo's young age, he moved

with his parents to Florence, the citadel of renaissance. At the age of 17,

he got admitted in Pisa University for medical education, but he did not

like to study medicine. He was born at a time when European renaissance

was at it's peak. William Shakespeare, the greatest efflorescence of European

renaissance was also born in 1564. The renaissance in Europe brought up an

upheaval in the European mind. We know that Europe went under such a

Dark age after the fall of Roman Empire in 576 AD but today scientists do

not call it Dark age because a lot of inventions had occurred during it. He

was the first scientist who understood that mere speculation can't advance

the scientific knowledge or provide the capacity to humans to predict a

phenomenon. So, he provided a new method to give a quantitative

description of a phenomenon. Her combined mathematics and experiment together in a scientific discovery. His invention was to find out those phenomenon that are fundamental so that they can be measured and expressed by mathematical equations, which gave birth to modern science.

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36 year-old Galileo was pointing the telescope, designed and fabricated by him, at the sky to unravel the mystery of celestial bodies. He had a natural attraction towards tools and implements. He became a proficient mechanist