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Galileo (oh)



(1564-1642) an Italian astronomer (=a scientist who studies the stars) , mathematician, and physicist whose many discoveries had a great influence on modern science. He discovered that the planets move around the Sun, and that if you drop objects of different weights in a vacuum, they fall at the same speed.