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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 90. Chapters: Leonardo da Vinci, Alessandro Volta, Enrico Fermi, Guglielmo Marconi, Gerolamo Cardano, Guido of Arezzo, Galileo Galilei, Antonio Meucci, Bartolomeo Cristofori, Fausto Veranzio, Enea Bossi, Sr., Federico Faggin, Maria Montessori, Mario Capecchi, Giambattista della Porta, Giovanni Caselli, Corradino D'Ascanio, Evangelista Torricelli, Giovanni Luppis, Robert Ludvigovich Bartini, Ugo Cerletti, Raimondo di Sangro, Vincenzo Lunardi, Innocenzo Manzetti, Galileo Ferraris, Giovanni Branca, Tito Livio Burattini, Flavio Baracchini, Enrico Forlanini, The Telephone Cases, Giulio Natta, Sanctorius, Eugenio Barsanti, Ascanio Sobrero, Leonardo Chiariglione, Teseo Tesei, Giuseppe Zamboni, Giuseppe di Giugno, Gasparo Tagliacozzi, Flavio Gioja, Juanelo Turriano, Tullio Campagnolo, Antonio Pacinotti, Alessandro Cruto, Ildebrando Zacchini, Giovanni Battista Amici, Felice Matteucci, Tomaso Vercellotti, Gianni Bettini, Secondo Campini, Enzo Paoletti, Francesco Cirio, Fabio Perini, Antonio Benedetto Carpano, List of Italian inventors, Giuseppe Ravizza, Temistocle Calzecchi-Onesti, Amatino Manucci, Pellegrino Turri, Claudio Bordignon, Giuseppe Donati, Ignazio Porro, Lucio Bini. Excerpt: Galileo Galilei (Italian pronunciation: 15 February 1564 - 8 January 1642), commonly known as Galileo, was an Italian physicist, mathematician, astronomer and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution. His achievements include improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations, and support for Copernicanism. Galileo has been called the "father of modern observational astronomy," the "father of modern physics," the "father of science," and "the Father of Modern Science." Stephen Hawking says, "Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science." The motion of unifor...
