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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.
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- 2 Jul - short biography, births, deaths and events on date of Galilei's death.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
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