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Special attention has been paid to several individuals including Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei, the Renaissance astrologer Girolarno Cardano, the Rosicrucians, John Dee, and the medical alchemist Simon Forman by devoting chapters to specific aspects of their work. Later that spring I went to the theatre with his wife and some of his fellow activists to see Brecht's Galileo Galilei. Galileo Galilei said, "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. |
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Galileo - 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)