Place

Florence

Tuscany · Modern Italy

The Tuscan capital of the Medici, where Galileo served as court philosopher and spent his final years under house arrest at nearby Arcetri.

Thinkers Connected to Florence

Galileo Galilei

1564 CE – 1642 CE

He turned a telescope on the heavens and a mathematician's eye on motion, and was made to kneel for saying the earth moves.

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