# Galileo Galilei

Galileo Galilei worked in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Italy as a mathematician, instrument maker, court philosopher, astronomer, and controversial author. His telescopic observations, studies of motion, and public arguments for mathematical natural philosophy helped transform astronomy and mechanics.

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