Feb. 15, 1564: The birth of Galileo

Italian mathematician Galileo Galilei was born in Feb. 15, 1564, in Pisa. Often summarized as the father of modern science, certainly a polymath and a brilliant thinker who operated on a high intellectual level, Galileo had innovative thoughts about nearly everything he contemplated. And one thing he often contemplated was optics. He envisioned lenses thatContinue reading “Feb. 15, 1564: The birth of Galileo”

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