About Galileo Galilei
His full name was Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de' Galilei, and he was a polymath who contributed to many fields. He was born when Pisa belonged to the Duchy of Florence, and historians also credit him as the father of classical physics and the scientific method.
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