Spotlight on People
The year 2014 brings many significant birth anniversaries, of which a small selection is presented here. See also the main book for many other interesting landmark birth anniversaries.
World History
Galileo Galilei
Birth: Feb 15, 1564 
450 years
Physicist and astronomer who helped overthrow medieval concepts of the world, born at Pisa, Italy. He proved the theory that all bodies, large and small, descend at equal speed and gathered evidence to support Copernicus’s theory that Earth and other planets revolve around the sun. In 1632, Galileo was tried by the Inquisition and found “vehemently suspect of heresy” because his Dialogue ...
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