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- proper noun Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), an Italian
thinker and key figure in thescientific revolution who improved thetelescope , madeastronomical observations, and put forward the basicprinciple of relativity inphysics .
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- 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)
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Because only in science fiction can you have a wonderful story of Galileo from the seventeenth century, and then be transported away in the matter of a second to a moon of Jupiter in the fourth millennium, over a thousand years from our time.
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Because only in science fiction can you have a wonderful story of Galileo from the seventeenth century, and then be transported away in the matter of a second to a moon of Jupiter in the fourth millennium, over a thousand years from our time.
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Galileo is the star astronomer known to the public as the first to do this.
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This is the clown who wanted Kirk to give up the search for Spock, McCoy and others on the shuttlecraft in Galileo 7″.
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Nominee Kim Stanley Robinson, who has been up for the award before, said via email that his novel came about because of his interest in Galileo ever since doing the research for his prior book The Years of Rice and Salt.
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Back in Galileo's time, you had politicians, religious leaders, and scientists telling everyone that the world was flat!
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Back in Galileo's time, you had politicians, religious leaders, and scientists telling everyone that the world was flat!
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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Back in Galileo's time, you had politicians, religious leaders, and scientists telling everyone that the world was flat!
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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Back in Galileo's time, you had politicians, religious leaders, and scientists telling everyone that the world was flat!
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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This is the clown who wanted Kirk to give up the search for Spock, McCoy and others on the shuttlecraft in Galileo 7″.
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