Equipment: A Galileo's thermometer (a sealed liquid filled glass ... Ferdinand II, one of the great family of the Medici" and later adduces evidence dating it to in or before 1641.' Cautions: The ...

The one in which Galileo was born was an autocracy, the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, with its capital at Florence and the second city at Pisa, his birthplace. The de Medici family ruled. Next to ...

Leonardo da Vinci pioneered the study of human anatomy and Galileo Galilei rocked the Catholic ... lives of artists and the contribution of the Medici, in a precursor of today's PR.