Galileo Biography

Michelle Jackson

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Description

This piece of non-fiction is read in the style of the narrator. These passages are from a work documenting the life of astronomer Galileo Galilei and was read in an engaging way in a fully-voiced narration style.

Vocal Characteristics

Language

English

Voice Age

Middle Aged (35-54)

Accents

North American (General) North American (US General American - GenAM)

Transcript

Note: Transcripts are generated using speech recognition software and may contain errors.
like many other philosophers who have 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 99 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. Among the earliest of his inventions appears to have been the thermometer, which he constructed in 16 02 No doubt this apparatus and its primitive form differed in some respects from the contrivance we call the same name. Galileo at first employed water as theeighties int. Its expansion was the basis of the measure of temperature.