Definition of Galileo galilei

1. Noun. 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).

Exact synonyms: Galileo
Generic synonyms: Astronomer, Stargazer, Uranologist
Derivative terms: Galilean

Lexicographical Neighbors of Galileo Galilei

Galician-Asturian
Galician-Portuguese
Galicians
Galictis vittatus
Galiella rufa
Galilaean
Galilean
Galilean moon
Galilean moons
Galilean satellite
Galilean satellites
Galilean telescope
Galileans
Galilee
Galileo
Galileo Galilei
Galina
Galina Sergeevna Ulanova
Galina Ulanova
Galium
Galium aparine
Galium boreale
Galium lanceolatum
Galium mollugo
Galium odoratum
Galium verum
Galiza
Galizan
Gall's craniology
Gallant Fox

Literary usage of Galileo galilei

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of Modern Philosophy: A Sketch of the History of Philosophy from by Harald Høffding (1908)
"... CHAPTER IV galileo galilei WHEN, some years after Kepler's death, Galilei says in a letter that while he has always regarded Kepler's as a free (perhaps ..."

2. A Beginner's History of Philosophy by Herbert Ernest Cushman (1911)
"... of the soul from the explanation of the body of man, just as God had been pushed into the background of the universe. galileo galilei (1564-1641). ..."

3. The Intellectual Rise in Electricity: A History by Park Benjamin (1895)
"Galileo, it seems, for the purpose of repeating Gilbert's experiments, had prepared galileo galilei.1 for himself a lodestone weighing about half a pound ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... "galileo galilei") : " The Church never condemned it (the Copernican system) at all, for the Qualifiers of the Holy Office never mean the Church ". ..."

5. Five-minute Declamations edited by Walter K. Fobes (1885)
"galileo galilei. EDWARD EVERETT. THERE is much in every way in the city of Florence to excite the curiosity, kindle the imagination, and gratify the taste ..."

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