A short educational bit on Galileo and an excerpt from a short story
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EnglishVoice Age
Young Adult (18-35)Accents
North American (General)Transcript
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Like many other philosophers who greatly extended 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 15.9 he had engaged a skilled workmen who was to live in his house and to be constantly at hand to try the devices, which were forever springing from Galileo's fertile brain. The prince journeyed on, spending days traveling and his nights in little wayside ends to one day. He found himself in the heart of the adamant mountains. The great red granite crags of the surrounding peaks rose out of the gleaming snow like ugly fingers, and the slopes of giant glacier sparkled in the sun like torrents of diamonds. The prince, sent down by some stunted trees who stops, have been broken off a long time ago by an avalanche and began to eat the bit of bread and cheese that he had stored in his pocket. Meanwhile, his black horse ate the grass, which grew here, there, along the mountain path, and as the prince sat there in the bright sun and the silence of the mountains, he became aware of a low, continuous roaring. There must be a waterfall nearby, said the prince to himself. I'll go and see it.