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Vincenzo Galilei
(1520 - 2 Jul 1591)
Italian acoustics researcher, music theorist, lutenist and composer who was as a music composer and lutenist, adopted experimentation to prove aspects of acoustics rather than merely accepting conventional explanations. He may thus have influenced his son, Galileo, away from pure, abstract mathematics and towards making experiments and investigation.
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Science Quotes by Vincenzo Galilei (1 quote)
It appears to me that those who rely simply on the weight of authority to prove any assertion, without searching out the arguments to support it, act absurdly. I wish to question freely and to answer freely without any sort of adulation. That well becomes any who are sincere in the search for truth.
— Vincenzo Galilei
Quoted in James Reston, Jr., Galileo, a Life, p. 9.
See also:
- 2 Jul - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Galilei's death.