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Wiktionary
- n. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), an Italian thinker and key figure in the scientific revolution who improved the telescope, made astronomical observations, and put forward the basic principle of relativity in physics.
WordNet 3.0
- n. Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars; demonstrated that different weights descend at the same rate; perfected the refracting telescope that enabled him to make many discoveries (1564-1642)
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“Back in Galileo's time, you had politicians, religious leaders, and scientists telling everyone that the world was flat!”
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“Galileo is the star astronomer known to the public as the first to do this.”
“Nominee Kim Stanley Robinson, who has been up for the award before, said via email that his novel came about because of his interest in Galileo ever since doing the research for his prior book The Years of Rice and Salt.”
“This is the clown who wanted Kirk to give up the search for Spock, McCoy and others on the shuttlecraft in Galileo 7″.”
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“Because only in science fiction can you have a wonderful story of Galileo from the seventeenth century, and then be transported away in the matter of a second to a moon of Jupiter in the fourth millennium, over a thousand years from our time.”
“The site notes that Galileo is better known because he was one of the first to use the telescope for scientific purposes and his astronomical discoveries were a huge sensation.”
“But Galileo is not the only great name that found its way on the cover of the 343 pages long book.”
“A raft of technical issues have to be addressed if Galileo is to become a fully functioning civil sat-nav service that, unlike military systems, gives guarantees to users over performance.”
“Pietro Redondi, unlike Gribbin, does not think it pointless to examine these theories in Galileo: Heretic.”
“Not only has it failed to pursue the question of why we need an expensive duplicate system, when the US has committed to providing its own "Navstar" GPS entirely free of charge, but it has also faithfully parroted the EU mantra that Galileo is a "civilian system under civilian control". read more ...”
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