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Galileo
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galileo
English
thumb|Galileo Galilei
Pronunciation
en /ˌɡæl.ɪˈleɪ.əʊ/ UK
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Galileo.wav Southern England
en /ˌɡæl.ɪˈleɪ.oʊ/ /ˌɡæl.ɪˈliː.oʊ/ US
en /ˌɡæl.ɪˈlæɪ.əʉ/ AU
en eɪəʊ 4
Proper noun
Galileo Galilei (1564–1642), an Italian thinker and key figure in the scientific revolution who improved the telescope, made astronomical observations, and put forward the basic principle of relativity in physics.
en Anton Troianovski Hunting Ghost Particles Beneath the World’s Deepest Lake w:The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/30/science/neutrinos-lake-baikal.html 2021-03-30 https://web.archive.org/web/20210330070419/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/30/science/neutrinos-lake-baikal.html 2021-03-30 The field’s practitioners believe that as they learn to read the universe using neutrinos, they could make new, unexpected discoveries — much as the lensmakers who first developed the telescope could not have imagined that Galileo would later use it to discover the moons of Jupiter.
Derived terms
en Galilean telescope Galileian galileon Galilean Galileo fallacy Galileo gambit
Translations
Galileo Galilei
Arabic: ar غاليليو Ḡālylyw
Armenian: hy Գալիլեյ
Bulgarian: bg Галиле́о m
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 伽利略 Jiālìlüè
Esperanto: eo Galilejo
Finnish: fi Galilei
French: fr Galilée m
German: de Galileo m
Japanese: ja ガリレオ
Korean: ko 갈릴레오
Polish: pl Galileusz m
Portuguese: pt Galileu m
Russian: ru Галиле́о
Turkish: tr Galileo
Vietnamese: vi Galileo
Proper noun
The satellite navigation system of the European Union.
en GLONASS GPS
en Copernican Revolution Individuals Italy
Cebuano
Pronunciation
ceb Ga li leo
Proper noun
ceb noun
ceb male
Galileo Galilei
ceb Individuals
Italian
Etymology
it :lbor la:Galilaeus<t:Galilean; Christian>
it la Galilaeus Galilean; Christian.
Pronunciation
Galilèo
Proper noun
m
it male
Descendants
en Galileo 1
Portuguese
Proper noun
m
pt Galileu