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Galileo Galilei

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Important People, Terms, and Events

Summary and Analysis

The Young Mathematician

Padua and Astronomy

The View Through the Telescope

The Starry Messenger

The First Confrontation

The Dialogue of the Two World Systems

The Trial of Galileo

The Final Years

Questions for Study

Further Reading

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