Galileo documentary demo

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A snippet about Galileo's life

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Language

English

Voice Age

Middle Aged (35-54)

Accents

British (General)

Transcript

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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. In 15 99 he had engaged a skilled workmen who was to live in his house would be constantly at hand 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. 0, too. No doubt, this apparatus, in its primitive form, differed in some respects from the contrivance we call by the same name. Galileo at first employed water as the agent. Its expansion was the basis of the measure of temperature.