Place

Pisa

Tuscany · Modern Italy

A Tuscan city, birthplace of Galileo and the setting, by legend, of his experiments dropping weights from the leaning tower.

Thinkers Connected to Pisa

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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