Galileo documentary

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Like many other philosophers who have greatly excited our knowledge of nature, Galileo had a remarkable aptitude for the invention of instruments designed for philosophical research. To facilitate his practical work, we find that in 1599 had engaged a skilled workmen who was to live in his house and being constantly at hand to try the devices, Which were forever speaking from Galileo's fertile brain. Among the earliest of his inventions appears to be in the Thermometer, which he constructed in 1602. No doubt this apparatus and its primitive form differed in some respects for the contrivance we called by the same name.