English Male Non-Fiction Reading
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Like many other philosophers who greatly extended our knowledge of nature, Galileo had a remarkable attitude for the invention of instruments designed for philosophical research to facilitate his practical work. We find that in 1599 he had engaged a skilled workmen who was to live in his house and be constantly at hand to try the devices, which were forever springing from Galileo's fertile brain.