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GALILEI, GALILEO

Specialty Definition: GALILEI, GALILEO

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Physics

An Italian scientist, Galileo was renowned for his epoch making contribution to physics, astronomy, and scientific philosophy. He is regarded as the chief founder of modern science. He developed his own version of the telescope, with which he found craters on the Moon and discovered the largest moons of Jupiter. Galileo was condemned by the Catholic Church for his view of the cosmos based on the theory of Copernicus. (14 k GIF) (1564 - 1642). (references)

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Alternative Orthography: GALILEI, GALILEO


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 41 4C 49 4C 45 49 2C      47 41 4C 49 4C 45 4F

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01000001 01001100 01001001 01001100 01000101 01001001 00101100 00100000 01000111 01000001 01001100 01001001 01001100 01000101 01001111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#65 &#76 &#73 &#76 &#69 &#73 &#44 &#32 &#71 &#65 &#76 &#73 &#76 &#69 &#79

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0041 004C 0049 004C 0045 0049 002C      0047 0041 004C 0049 004C 0045 004F

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

4135464346394314241354643463949

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