Galileo

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Birth

February 15, 1564

Left school

1585

Lectures at University of Pisa

1589 - 1592

University of Padua

1592 - 1605

Improves telescope

1609

Wrote the “Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems”

1632

House arrest

June 1633 - January 8, 1642

Published his last works in Germany

1638

Death

January 8, 1642