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Galileo Galilei

One of the founders of modern mechanics. He opened a new epoch in the controversies of heliocentric vs. geocentric theories by his theorizing and observations by means of a telescope. His name is still alive in such contemporary technial words as the "Galilean principle of relativity" or the "Galilean transformation".

See Galilean Relativity [Japanese]; Galilean Relativity and Galilean Transformation

See also a biography in MacTutor History of Math.


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