Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Galileo Galilei
Standard Name: Galileo Galilei
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Education | Lady Hester Pulter | Mark Robson
in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography observes that LHP
was an educated and highly literate woman. |
| Friends, Associates | John Milton | While staying in Florence, Milton met Galileo
. |
| Travel | Violet Trefusis | Alice Keppel
purchased in 1924 a villa overlooking Florence, named Ombrellino. It had once been Galileo
's home; contemporary neighbours included Mabel Dodge
and Harold Acton
. By 1934 Ombrellino had become VT
's... |
Timeline
1406
The influential work of ancient astronomer Claudius Ptolemaeus
(Ptolemy) was translated into Latin.
Autumn 1609
The astronomer Galileo Galilei
, using a telescope of his own invention in his garden at Padua, first observed the moons of Jupiter, the rings of Saturn, and mountains on the moon.
12 March 1610
Galileo
published at Venice his recent astronomical discoveries (including the existence of the moons of Jupiter) in Sidereus Nuncius, or The Starry Messenger.
22 June 1633
A committee of the Holy Office of the Inquisition
passed judgement of heresy on Galileo
's Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican (published in February 1632).
8 January 1642
The scientist Galileo
died, blind and still under the ban of the Inquisition
; Isaac Newton
, who inherited his mantle as leading light in the field of science, was born on Christmas Day of...
1643
The Italian scientist Evangelista Torricelli
, a pupil of Galileo
working on the flow of liquids in confined spaces, invented the first simple barometer.
1656
Christiaan Huygens
of Amsterdam patented the first pendulum clock (of which Galileo
had produced a prototype fifteen years earlier).
1714
Daniel Fahrenheit
developed the mercury thermometer, in which the movement of mercury in a calibrated glass tube allowed for accurate reading of temperature.
1835
For the first time in two hundred years the Papal Index or Index Librorum Prohibitorum did not list Galileo
's Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems: Ptolemaic and Copernican.
9 September 1943
Bertolt Brecht
's Galileo, a powerful drama about the clash between state authorities and intellectual freedom, was first staged, in German, at Zurich in neutral Switzerland.