Galileo Summary
Bertolt Brecht

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Galileo Summary

Galileo by Bertolt Brecht is a short history play about the scientist and astronomer Galileo Galilei. It charts Galileo's later years, when his experiments with telescopes and development of evidence for a heliocentric model of the solar system threatened the Church, resulting in Galileo's inquisition and his eventual recantation of his scientific findings.

Middle-aged Galileo, already a famed scientist living in Venice, is in his study when he receives a geocentric...

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Encyclopedia Articles (7)

Galilei, Galileo

489 words, approx. 2 pages

Galilei, Galileo Italian Astronomer, Mathematician, and Physicist 1564-1642 Galileo Galilei (commonly known as Galileo) was a founder of modern physics and modern astronomy. He was born in Pisa, Italy... Read more

Galileo Galilei

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Galileo Galilei Italian Astronomer, Physicist, and Mathematician 1564–1642 Galileo's many important discoveries put him in direct opposition to the Catholic Church, the ruling body o... Read more

Galileo Galilei

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Galileo Galilei GALILEO GALILEI (1564–1642) is considered to be the father of modern science. Born at Pisa, Italy, Galileo received some of his early schooling there. He then was sent to the an... Read more

Galileo Galilei

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Galileo Galilei 1564-1642 Italian Astronomer, Mathematician, and Physicist Galileo Galilei, best known simply as Galileo, made fundamental discoveries in mechanics and observational astronomy as well ... Read more

Galilei, Galileo (1564-1642)

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Galilei, Galileo (1564-1642) Italian mathematician and astronomer Galileo Galilei is credited with establishing the modern experimental method. Before Galileo, knowledge of the physical world that was... Read more

Galilei, Galileo

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Galilei, Galileo Mathematician, astronomer, and natural philosopher, Galileo Galilei (1564–1642), who was born the same year as William Shakespeare in Pisa, Italy, on February 15, contributed f... Read more

Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)

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Galileo Galilei(1564–1642) Galileo Galilei, the Italian astronomer and physicist, was born at Pisa. Although he created no systematic philosophy, his influence on the trend of modern philosophi... Read more

Bertolt Brecht Biographies (9)

Bertolt Brecht

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The German author Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) is probably the greatest German playwright of the first half of the 20th century. His works were often considered controversial because of his revolutionar... Read more

Bertolt Brecht

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Biography EssayBertolt Brecht is one of the great names not only of twentieth-century German literature but of modern world literature. His contribution, though varied—it includes lyrical, narra... Read more

(Eugen) Bertolt (Friedrich) Brecht

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Bertolt Brecht's status as one of the major playwrights of the twentieth century is largely uncontested. In addition to writing a significant body of plays that are performed all over the world, Brech... Read more

(Eugen) Bertolt (Friedrich) Brecht

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Bertolt Brecht is one of the great names not only of twentieth-century German literature but of modern world literature. His contribution, though varied--it includes lyrical, narrative, dramatic, and ... Read more

Galileo Galilei

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The Italian scientist Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) is renowned for his epoch-making contributions to astronomy, physics, and scientific philosophy.Galileo was born in Pisa on Feb. 15, 1564, the first c... Read more

Galileo Galilei

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Galileo Galilei, known best as simply "Galileo," was a scientist at a most difficult time in history: the time of the Inquisition, when the Roman Catholic Church was still furiously resisting evidence... Read more

Galileo Galilei

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Galileo is credited with establishing the modern experimental method. Before Galileo, knowledge of the physical world that was advanced by scientists and thinkers was for the most part a matter of hyp... Read more

Galileo

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Galileo Galilei is credited with establishing the modern experimental method. Before Galileo, knowledge of the physical world that was advanced by scientists and thinkers was for the most part a matte... Read more

Galileo

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Essays & Analysis (17)

Critical Essay by Sir Robert S. Ball

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Critical Essay by Richard S. Westfall

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Critical Essay by Albert Einstein

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Critical Essay by Giorgio de Santillana

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Critical Essay by Pope John Paul II

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Critical Essay by Jean Dietz Moss

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Critical Essay by Richard S. Westfall

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Critical Essay by Charles E. Hummel

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Critical Essay by William R. Shea

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Galileo Galilei

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Galileo Galilei is the world's first modern scientist. Galileo has shaped and molded the way we look at the universe as a whole and he has changed the way we live our everyday lives. Galileo Galile... Read more

Galileo

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The Scientific Revolution hit Europe and other places all over the world with a big impact that left everlasting effects to this day. Many of the Scientific Revolution ideas came from the theories ... Read more

Galileo Galilei

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An Italian physicist and astronomer named Galileo Galilei founded modern science. He studied and researched many areas of what is now called physical science. Among other innovations, one of his mor... Read more

Galileo and Aristotle- Motion and the Law of Falling Bodies

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Galileo, At the University of Padua, learned the physics of Aristotle and questioned Aristotle's approach to physics. So over the course of his life Galileo would try to refute the concepts of physic... Read more

Galileo Galilei

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Table of Contents Introduction 2 Galileo Galilei - His life Story and Discoveries 2 How Galileo's Discoveries Impacted Modern Science 8 References 9 An Italian physicist and astronomer named Gali... Read more

Galileo Galilei

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Galileo Galilei Who is this person who we call Galileo? Is he a mathematician, physicist, or an astronomer? Is he the greatest scientist that ever lived? Is he the same person that found out that A... Read more

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