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Galileo

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Galileo	Astronomer born in 1564
monastery	where Galileo attended school
Pisa	site of Galileo's Lamp
clock	designed with a pendulum
Leaning Tower of Pisa	site of some of Galileo's experiments
Ptolemy	Roman astronomer
Ptolemaic Theory	stated the sun moved around the earth
Copernican Theory	stated the earth moved around the sun
Medici	patron family of Galileo
Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto	moons of Jupiter
heliocentric	having the sun as the center
geocentric	relating to the earth as the center
cosmos	the orderly universe
dialogue	a conversation between two or more persons
inquisition	a severe questioning
Vencenzio	Galileo's father
house	where Galileo was imprisoned
Virginia and Livia	Galileo's daughters
with respect	how Galileo treated people
David Scott	astronaut