Galileo Galilei "founder Of Modern Experimental Science"

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This instrument, called a hydrostatic balance, was used by weighing
the objects in water.

Galileo returned to Pisa in 1589 and became a professor in math. He
taught courses in astronomy at the University of Pisa, based on Ptolemy's theory
that the sun and all of the planets move around the earth. Teaching these
courses, he became more understanding of astronomy.

In 1592, the University of Padua gave him a professorship in math. He
stayed at that school for eighteen years. He learned and believed Nicolaus
Copernicus's theory that all of the planets move around the sun, made a
mechanical tool called a sector, explained the tides based on Copernican theory
of motion of earth, found that the Milky Way was made up of many stars, and told
people that machines cannot create power, they can only change it.

In 1602, still at Padua, Galileo did research on motion. The
Aristotelian theory of motion went against the theory that the earth moves.
Because of this, Galileo worked ...

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