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Person    | Male  Born 15/2/1564  Died 1642

Galileo Galilei

Categories: Science, Seriously Famous

Countries: Italy

Galileo Galilei

Physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher. Born Pisa, Italy. His improvements to the telescope enabled him to make new important astronomical observations which supported Copernicus’s theory that the Sun was the centre of the universe. Died at home near Florence.

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