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Italian physicist and astronomer (1564–1642) Galileo GalileiPortrait c. 1640BornGalileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei(1564-02-15)15 February 1564Pisa, Duchy of FlorenceDied8 January 1642(1642-01-08) (aged 77)Arcetri, Grand Duchy of TuscanyEducationUniversity of PisaKnown forAnalytical dynamicsheliocentrismkinematicsobservational astronomyFatherVincenzo GalileiScientific careerFieldsAstronomyphysicsengineeringnatural philosophymathematicsWorkplacesUniversity of PisaUniversity of PaduaPatrons Cosimo II de Medici Federico Cesi Ferdinando II de Medici Fra Paolo Sarpi Francesco Maria del Monte Academic advisorsOstilio Ricci da FermoNotable studentsBenedetto CastelliMario GuiducciVincenzo Viviani Signature Part of a series onPhysical cosmology Big BangUniverse Age of the universe Chronology of the universe Early universe InflationBaryogenesisNucleosynthesis Backgrounds Gravitational wave (GWB) Microwave (CMB)Neutrino (CNB) Expansion and future Hubble's lawRedshift Expansion of the universe FLRW metricFriedmann equations Lambda-CDM model Future of an expanding universe Ultimate fate of the universe Components and structure Components Dark energyDark matter PhotonsBaryons Structure Shape of the universe Galaxy filamentGalaxy formation Large quasar group Large-scale structure ReionizationStructure formation Experiments Black Hole Initiative (BHI) BOOMERanG Cosmic Background Explorer (COBE) Dark Energy Survey Planck space observatory Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey ("2dF") Wilkinson Microwave AnisotropyProbe (WMAP) Scientists Aaronson Alfvén Alpher Copernicus de Sitter Dicke Ehlers Einstein Ellis Friedmann Galileo Gamow Guth Hawking Hubble Huygens Kepler Lemaître Mather Newton Penrose Penzias Rubin Schmidt Smoot Suntzeff Sunyaev Tolman Wilson Zeldovich List of cosmologists Subject history Discovery of cosmic microwavebackground radiation History of the Big Bang theory Timeline of cosmological theories Category Astronomy portalvte Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642), commonly referred to as Galileo Galilei or mononymously as Galileo, was an Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer and polymath.

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