Galileo Galilei
1564–1642
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
scientist · astronomer · politician
Born in Pisa
Contemporaries
People who walked the earth at the same time as Galileo Galilei:
- William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
- René Descartes (1596–1650)
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616)
- Molière (1622–1673)
- Rembrandt (1606–1669)
- Blaise Pascal (1623–1662)
- Elizabeth I of England (1533–1603)
- Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
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